@okie,
okie wrote:
Perhaps some of these inventions provide some levity to the discussion, but I believe these inventions could evolve into something rather significant, given time, refinement, and breakthroughs in regard to certain aspects of their design. For example, I think before the Wright brothers, the idea of actually flying in an airplane was also laughed at and ridiculed. Many inventions, in their initial and most crude forms, have been ridiculed as being useless and doomed to failure.
Absolutely, and I think that's the main hangup in this whole global warming debate.
I don't anybody who is not in favor of progress or who thinks that the industrialized world will always run on oil or other fossil fuels. Certainly many of our grandparents at one time could not have conceived of marvels such as a modern Ford F-150, a big combine in Kansas, airplanes, computers, the internet, bullet trains, television, vacuum cleaners, routine excursions into space, solar powered calculators, etc.
But in one century, humanity has achieved all that and much much more. With new technology being developed and made effective at a faster and faster rate, imagine what new wonders will have been imagined and perfected by the end of this century?
I think the important thing is to know that it is happening and will continue to happen and allow it to happen naturally and/or be market driven as all our previous accomplishments have happened. When the government, in some misguided motives driven by what is probably faulty science re global warming, meddles excessively in that, I can see nothing good coming from it.
Right now oil is the fuel of freedom, prosperity, and possibilities for most of the world. I see no advantage to be gained by restricting its use or hamstringing economies by forbidding its use. Let's use it as we need to while the world moves forward into better, more efficient products, processes, and means.
) but no wind-powered engine or turbine can run without wind (and no normal car without diesel or petrol).
