Tuesday, November 01, 2005

What If We Burn Everything?





If humans continue to use fossil fuels in a business-as-usual manner for the next few centuries, the polar ice caps will be depleted, ocean sea levels will rise by seven meters and median air temperatures will soar to 14.5 degrees warmer than current day.

4 comments:

Gerald T said...

Ummm, doesent the oil run out in ten years?

Anonymous said...

I wonder why no private companies have helped to further develop the air car (more importantly, the air engine)? It seems like the all-around safest alternative to me and could bring massive ROI for companies if marketed and developed correctly. Does anyone have any specialized expertise in combustion or mechanical engineering that could shed some light? I'm also not sold on the hydrogen thing, i keep thinking Hindenburg+Ford Pinto for some reason, but i suppose its still better by orders of magnitude over fossil fuels.

Gerald T said...

The hydrogen cell uses platinum in its construction.
It then burns out in a year, using up the platinum, all gone.
If all the cars in the US were converted to hydrogen, the world’s supply of platinum would be gone in a year.
Hydrogen cars are a con job.
You have been lied to.
Don’t believe the deceptions of the matrix.

RJU said...

In addition to what Gerald said, it takes energy to split the hydrogen from water to make the hydrogen fuel cells. Unless there is sufficient wind, solar or other alternative energy sources, fossil fuels would be used to produce the hydrogen. The primary advantage in these fuel cells comes from the fact that if they were used in cities, pollution from cars would be zero in those cities, as water is the only by product of the hydrogen fuel cell.

I am not certain platinum is a necessary component in hydrogen fuel cell design, although it may be incorporated in many current designs as Gerald suggests.