For some reason the picture/link didnt show that showed they had done it until I quoted your reply!
I am inclined to agree with you - but they appear to be geared up for the job with skip lorries
For some reason the picture/link didnt show that showed they had done it until I quoted your reply!
I am inclined to agree with you - but they appear to be geared up for the job with skip lorries
Yeah right. How exactly does that reduce the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere? Replacing fossil fuel with biomass derived fuel? Get real.How can you possibly know what the outcome would have been? How you can you say ICE has zero chance? What if they developed a synthetic fuel.
Yeah right. How exactly does that reduce the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere? Replacing fossil fuel with biomass derived fuel? Get real.
Back in the stone age everything was hand powered. Then someone harnessed fire and domesticated animals for doing work, then water power. Later the industrial Revolution used external combustion engines to raise steam to drive machinery and for transport. Then along came large electrical generators (driven by various energy sources) which have powered the majority of electrical processes over the last century. There are more electric motors driving machinery than ever before - and certainly more electric motors thar internal combustion engines.
Unfortunately the Industrial revolution has used so much sequestered materials for the greatly increased energy requirements over the last couple of centuries that the human race is rapidly destroying the environment required for humans to comfortably survive. Pray tell us how, and from where, these synthetic fuels will be acquired, in amounts needed to replace fossil fuels. That is without trashing our only planet, for s short-term gain.
I am sorry, but I think you have your head in the sand. You are totally missing the point - THE BIG PICTURE.. The only time there will be enough surplus energy is when atomic fusion becomes our energy generation saviour, or space technology collects energy outside our planet and beams it down. Both a very long way in the future - well, maybe not but I don’t think our planet will have the time to rely on those technologies arriving before fossil fuel burning completely trashes our environment.
Yeah right. How exactly does that reduce the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere? Replacing fossil fuel with biomass derived fuel? Get real.
Back in the stone age everything was hand powered. Then someone harnessed fire and domesticated animals for doing work, then water power. Later the industrial Revolution used external combustion engines to raise steam to drive machinery and for transport. Then along came large electrical generators (driven by various energy sources) which have powered the majority of electrical processes over the last century. There are more electric motors driving machinery than ever before - and certainly more electric motors thar internal combustion engines.
Unfortunately the Industrial revolution has used so much sequestered materials for the greatly increased energy requirements over the last couple of centuries that the human race is rapidly destroying the environment required for humans to comfortably survive. Pray tell us how, and from where, these synthetic fuels will be acquired, in amounts needed to replace fossil fuels. That is without trashing our only planet, for s short-term gain.
I am sorry, but I think you have your head in the sand. You are totally missing the point - THE BIG PICTURE.. The only time there will be enough surplus energy is when atomic fusion becomes our energy generation saviour, or space technology collects energy outside our planet and beams it down. Both a very long way in the future - well, maybe not but I don’t think our planet will have the time to rely on those technologies arriving before fossil fuel burning completely trashes our environment.
The synthetic fuel I'm thinking of is the recent innovation which is made from base components...they construct a liquid hydrocarbon fuel from hydrogen (in water) and carbon (from the atmosphere)...it's quite ingenious....plus a lot of electricity (from renewables hopefully).How exactly does that reduce the amount of CO2 going into the atmosphere? Replacing fossil fuel with biomass derived fuel?
Microsoft are already using hydrogen fuel cells at some of their datacentres, so other options already exist.Just a thought, all the poultry farms I work on have mains failure diesel powered generators. How will we get round power cuts without diesel?
Microsoft are already using hydrogen fuel cells at some of their datacentres, so other options already exist.
The synthetic fuel I'm thinking of is the recent innovation which is made from base components...they construct a liquid hydrocarbon fuel from hydrogen (in water) and carbon (from the atmosphere)...it's quite ingenious....plus a lot of electricity (from renewables hopefully).
Sadly it isn't yet industrial scale...does seem to be quite a neat solution given that existing ICE engines can use it I believe.
Stick that synthetic fuel in a PHEV and I reckon it's job done...say 40 mile electric range for clean city use and then zero carbon liquid fuel for long distance.
And it will be like the temple of doom, poison darts and a large stone ball rolling down on you.
The last few posts have been the funniest pessimistic drivel I've read for ages!
Again?I worry where the electric is coming from to run all these units Cars, Lorry's, Busses, MC, and home heating in houses that were not built to retain heat.
Not to mention aircraft ships trains etc.
No coal /gas stations, wood pellets from the other side of the Atlantic and not as Environmentally friendly as we are led to believe
Discuss
No real answer then