Quote Originally Posted by Idle View Post
Another real world practical issue is that, one fine day, fossil fuels are going to disappear, never to be seen on this planet again.
It won't happen today, tomorrow, nor even yet next week, but one day the inevitable is going to hit the fan, and what does A do then?
That, to my mind, is what the frantic effort to develop alternative power sources is mostly about -- the impending threat dwarfs pollution and noise.
Think on it
Idle
Actually I have thought on it and I'm old enough to remember that back in the 70's it was predicted that we would run out of oil within 40 years. For example the 1975 International Petroleum Encyclopedia calculated, at 1975 consumption rates, that we would run out of oil completely, world wide, by 2015. I filled up my Polo yesterday and it's 2018, so another doomsday prediction debunked.

Personally I'm holding out for my Mr Fusion, as previewed in BTTF in 1987, which, after predicting the Cubs World Series win to within 1 year, has a better track record than the International Petroleum Encyclopedia.




Cheers
Gary