This "news" would be a helluva lot cooler if it was from....10 years ago. Granted, clean technology for cars isn't easy, but the luxury car companies (among others) are being inexcusably slow with their advances. So BMW has a production hydrogen car that's "just waiting for the world to catch up." Umm...so how exactly is this helping us with global warming NOW?
Well anybody that drives their luxury cars shouldn't really have to worry about the current gas prices, so I imagine it's a lot easier for them to keep enjoying gasoline while it's still around then other companies.
THE ONLY POWER SOURCE That is going to save the world is NUCLEAR POWER...
more specifically - we need to invest in FUSION technology research. There really is nothing else short of figuring a way to use salt water for fuel, that the world will get any cleaner and fuel costs will be lowered.
Fusion is a long way off. Most estimates I've heard are 50+ years before we can safely contain a reaction big enough to generate enough power to be useful.
Though I agree that fusion is a long term goal, we should concentrate more on solutions we can achieve more quickly such as solar, wind and fission reactors
Your chart shows a drop, starting in 1998, then up again, and then slightly down. Let me reiterate: THERE HAS BEEN NO RISE IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURE SINCE 1998, which your graph shows.
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Jandalf @ May 5th 2008 10:58AM
This "news" would be a helluva lot cooler if it was from....10 years ago. Granted, clean technology for cars isn't easy, but the luxury car companies (among others) are being inexcusably slow with their advances. So BMW has a production hydrogen car that's "just waiting for the world to catch up." Umm...so how exactly is this helping us with global warming NOW?
DESTOS @ May 5th 2008 11:20AM
Well anybody that drives their luxury cars shouldn't really have to worry about the current gas prices, so I imagine it's a lot easier for them to keep enjoying gasoline while it's still around then other companies.
Flashpoint @ May 5th 2008 11:27AM
THE ONLY POWER SOURCE That is going to save the world is NUCLEAR POWER...
more specifically - we need to invest in FUSION technology research. There really is nothing else short of figuring a way to use salt water for fuel, that the world will get any cleaner and fuel costs will be lowered.
Jandalf @ May 5th 2008 11:39AM
I'll agree with you as soon as you tell me how to dispose of nuclear waste. Safely.
Irene Rojas @ May 5th 2008 11:55AM
@Flashpoint: not in cars...right? I sure don't want to be the one to hit your nuclear-powered car in an accident.
Kurian @ May 5th 2008 11:56AM
I could have thought of and set up a factory to produce electric cars in less than 10 years....
And dumping nuclear waste in the sea in lead containers is safe.
The leakages etc are just exaggerated by the tree hugging assholes.
Bob P. @ May 5th 2008 12:22PM
Fusion is a long way off. Most estimates I've heard are 50+ years before we can safely contain a reaction big enough to generate enough power to be useful.
Though I agree that fusion is a long term goal, we should concentrate more on solutions we can achieve more quickly such as solar, wind and fission reactors
ChillyWilly @ May 5th 2008 12:32PM
Agreed with jandalf. 10 years ago, not 10 years from now. Why is it going to take them 10 years?
Andir3.0 @ May 5th 2008 12:33PM
Nuclear powered rockets to shoot it all in the Sun. :p
AndyM @ May 5th 2008 12:59PM
Jandalf: Reprocessing, glassification, and salt-dome storage.
Irene Rojas: In cars would work for me if it would eliminate the damn tailgaters.
Jeebus @ May 5th 2008 12:59PM
What global warming? There's been no increase in global temperature for 10 years now.
Jandalf @ May 5th 2008 1:16PM
@jeebus:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f4/Instrumental_Temperature_Record.png
BigD145 @ May 5th 2008 2:40PM
10 years ago? I don't think so. This would have been news when Audi was still in its infancy. Electric cars are old.
BigD145 @ May 5th 2008 2:42PM
AndyM: Reprocessing is not viable on a mass commercial scale. It been tried before. Storage is not an option.
AndyM @ May 6th 2008 6:10AM
BigD145: Empty assertions, and wrong ones at that.
Jeebus @ May 6th 2008 8:57AM
Your chart shows a drop, starting in 1998, then up again, and then slightly down. Let me reiterate: THERE HAS BEEN NO RISE IN GLOBAL TEMPERATURE SINCE 1998, which your graph shows.