KQED Quest has a video about a group of Bay Area engineers trying to launch a green car revolution. The video shows them “souping up” a Toyota’s Prius to get 100 mpg. Excellent sound bites by Sherry Boschert, Felix Kramer and Andy Frank who see the adoption of plug-in hybrids resulting in less smog, less global warming and a cure for America’s oil addiction.
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the U.S. economy is very vulnerable to a decreasing EROI for its principle fuels, whether that comes from an increase in expenditures overseas if and as the price of imported oil increases more rapidly than that of the things that we trade for it, or as domestic oil and gas reserves are exhausted and new reservoirs become increasingly difficult to find, or as we turn to lower EROI alternatives such as biodiesel and or photovoltaics. We do not know exactly what all this means, but our straightforward model suggests that a principal effect will be a decline in disposable income and a greater requirement for getting energy, with all the economic impacts that entails.Charles Hall -
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blamethank for this weblog. Some of the credit goes to Matt Mullenweg. Tho, this blog is still fuzzy on the whole WordPress way thing.
