Even if all your electricity is generated from coal (which it isn't) the carbon footprint is still drastically reduced. Your mode of thinking (or lack thereof) basically boils down to "if we can't solve the problem completely, we might as well not even bother"
Thank GOD most people don't think like u, otherwise we would still be living in caves.
After watching the episode of Top Gear where Mr Clarkson reviewed the Tesla, I have come to the following conclusions:
1: Top Gear was paid large sums of cash by oil company's to highlight the vehicles shortcomings as much as possible. 2: The failure of the first vehicle during charging was due to Big Oil 'hit men' who targeted the car with an electromagnetic pulse device, damaging various circuitry and causing the breaking system to fail. 3: James May is obviously in kahoots with the oil company's, promoting a technology for which there isn't even any infrestructure! How utterly rediciouluous.
Yes top gear, a technology that has no infrestructure, can cover a shorter distance between refueling, and needs about 10 miracle breakthroughs before it can become an everyday reality (and is LESS EFFICIENT) definitely makes more scence than something that is usable NOW.
Wow, I can't believe I'm reading an article about a supercomputer on Engadget and no one has even asked if it can play Crysis, things really are looking up :)
thats why the Arab nations are spending so much money on tourist attractions. They plan to capatilise on tourism once oil becomes obselete (or just allot les valuble).
Nuclear is a possibility since there are substance that are capable of turning infared heat energy directly into electricity. though even these substances and device are supressed. with this tech you could probably charge a cars battery or capacitor using the ambiant heat avalible in the atmosphere.
"The nation that leads on energy will be the nation that leads the world in the 21st century." i.e. NOT the USA. The American and European (and most other) energy corporations have time and time again destroyed the inventors and devices that will lead the REAL energy revolution. Hydrogen fuel cell technology is an arse backwards overcomplicated attempt by the fuel companies to try and stay in business. If you want to know what the real energy revolution is going to revolve around, research names like Stanley Meyer, Tom Bearden, Nikola Tesla, Joseph Newman and Edwin Gray amongst a few. Mr. Beardens Magnetic Energy Generator (MEG) looks particularly promising.
I will however say that this decision by Mr. Obama is a major step in the right direction!
Are you people frikin NUTS? That Magna concept is HOT! You must be smoking crack if you think for a second that the car is unattractive. People here on Engadget seem to have a real problem with progress and evolution. Well guess what? Its gonna happen whether you like it or not, so get with the damn program. I'm sure people bitched and complained when cars started replacing horse carts (even although a horse is much more efficient than an ICE car), but oh well. Personally I can’t wait until the day all the cars on the road are electric. It is pathetic that the internal combustion engine, an archaic, primitive, wasteful technology has been allowed to live this long. Just what people find so attractive about these machines is completely beyond my level of comprehension. So they make a loud noise, big whoop. Anyone with the ability to think should see that as a SEVERE DEFECT. Imagine if your fridge made the sound of a 747 taking off every time the compressor kicked in...that would be a BAD thing. I want a fridge to COOL DOWN PERISHABLES, not waist energy making a noise. Just like i would want my car to be fast, responsive and reliable WITHOUT making a huge noise. Maybe if I grew up in a country where loud obnoxious behavior was 'cool' I might understand this a bit better.
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