fossil fuels

[nibot]

Supposing that we have already passed the time of peak oil production, my question for you is this: in what year will we see fewer cars on California roads than in the previous year?

At what point will the Interstate Highways be fossil roads, abandoned relics, like the decaying steel towns of Pennsylvania, like the Erie Canal?

When will Phoenix be Detroit?

Or will someone invent the coal-powered car and doom us all? (The plug-in Prius actually burns coal.)

Comments

[nibot.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I thought that was pretty interesting. Apparently there is a whole breed of "power line nerds" who go out cataloging the transmission lines. (-:

It's interesting that they use DC for that transmission line. I think the only real advantage over AC is that they don't have to synchronize the grids.

[surpheon.livejournal.com]

I thought DC also had fewer losses due to technobabble stuff like capacitance losses and corona discharge. The only downside is that you can't use century-old tech to step the voltages around.