All may not be entirely dark. Electric vehicles, like fax machines, may prove to be a short-lived stopgap.
Hydrogen presents particular problems for motorcycles, less so for cars but there is a new, (old kid) on the block, ammonia.
It has been used before in wartime, and to power the fastest aircraft ever built.
It can be made simply from air & water, (and electricity) and its wastes are water & nitrogen.
Existing petrol & diesel engines are apparently easily retro modified to use it, and it can be distributed vis existing infrastructure and poses no more risk/handling problems than petrol apparently. Two stumbling blocks have hindered its uptake previously.
One has been that it has been dirty & energy-hungry to produce alongside petroleum products.
These problems are in the process of being overcome, particularly with the ever decreasing cost of renewable electricity sources.
In fact, you may eventually be able to produce it at home from a unit the size of a double door fridge freezer. Then watch your road taxes skyrocket!
Still, roads have to be made & maintained and nobody works for nowt, even if they'd like to.
No 2 problem has been the vested interests of the petroleum producers & suppliers but as they come to realise the finiteness of source product & the way the world is changing, they are beginning to embrace diversification, rather than die, like so many predecessors.
I saw that lithium carbonate for LI batteries topped USD30,000 per ton a little while ago, then there is all that cobalt from dubious sources, and China's near stranglehold on the rare earth supply for super magnets and all sort of other things. Who wouldn't want to develop a clean energy source for transportation & industry they could generate at home with no foreign dependency?
I think you might actually have bigger issues pending with the development of "black box flight recorders' for all vehicles, in the name of "safety" of course and that is hard to argue against, especially as trucks, as well as aircraft, are already fitted with much of this stuff!
Look at BMW's vision for the future, "you won't need a helmet as the bike won't let you fall off", ( or anything else either)
Your own vehicle will dob you in for the most minor infringements, and with satellite internet coverage everywhere in the world, it will dob you in from anywhere.
That's real big brother!
There is a major s$%& storm coming, across the world over this.
Hydrogen presents particular problems for motorcycles, less so for cars but there is a new, (old kid) on the block, ammonia.
It has been used before in wartime, and to power the fastest aircraft ever built.
It can be made simply from air & water, (and electricity) and its wastes are water & nitrogen.
Existing petrol & diesel engines are apparently easily retro modified to use it, and it can be distributed vis existing infrastructure and poses no more risk/handling problems than petrol apparently. Two stumbling blocks have hindered its uptake previously.
One has been that it has been dirty & energy-hungry to produce alongside petroleum products.
These problems are in the process of being overcome, particularly with the ever decreasing cost of renewable electricity sources.
In fact, you may eventually be able to produce it at home from a unit the size of a double door fridge freezer. Then watch your road taxes skyrocket!
Still, roads have to be made & maintained and nobody works for nowt, even if they'd like to.
No 2 problem has been the vested interests of the petroleum producers & suppliers but as they come to realise the finiteness of source product & the way the world is changing, they are beginning to embrace diversification, rather than die, like so many predecessors.
I saw that lithium carbonate for LI batteries topped USD30,000 per ton a little while ago, then there is all that cobalt from dubious sources, and China's near stranglehold on the rare earth supply for super magnets and all sort of other things. Who wouldn't want to develop a clean energy source for transportation & industry they could generate at home with no foreign dependency?
I think you might actually have bigger issues pending with the development of "black box flight recorders' for all vehicles, in the name of "safety" of course and that is hard to argue against, especially as trucks, as well as aircraft, are already fitted with much of this stuff!
Look at BMW's vision for the future, "you won't need a helmet as the bike won't let you fall off", ( or anything else either)
Your own vehicle will dob you in for the most minor infringements, and with satellite internet coverage everywhere in the world, it will dob you in from anywhere.
That's real big brother!
There is a major s$%& storm coming, across the world over this.
