Alternative energy

[Irving]

I was just commenting on the dichotomy of your statement. I don't think there is anything wrong with wood gas generators. I've heard of people putting one on a trailer and using it to power the vehicle pulling it during the Great Depression.

[mangyhyena]

I was just commenting on the dichotomy of your statement. I don't think there is anything wrong with wood gas generators. I've heard of people putting one on a trailer and using it to power the vehicle pulling it during the Great Depression.

Ah, I see where you're coming from. It does seem to contradict what I was talking about. I meant we should be looking for ways to keep our current technology up and running if things go South. Here in Colorado, solar and wind can accomplish much of that, when it comes to powering a home. I'm still interested in running my vehicle and a generator for high use appliances as well. A more hands on approach might be necessary to produce fuel for internal combustion engines. It would be great if solar and wind could be made to fuel an engine, but hydrogen is the only way I know of to accomplish that and at this point, pressurizing hydrogen in tanks to run vehicles seems too dangerous. But I heard they have tanks that use metal shavings to store the hydrogen and those tanks don't explode, so perhaps we'll have a way to produce and store hydrogen at the home level yet.

[Irving]

Don't forget nuclear. Pretty sure the technology has already existed for years for entire neighborhoods to be powered by a vehicle sized reactor buried at the end of the street. And who wouldn't want a motor sized reactor that would power your vehicle for 20 years?