Forget Biofuels, get onto the hard stuff

[doodab]

A decent mass transit system

Or the future they promised us in the 50s where science and machines would take care of everything and lesuire would become mankinds sole occupation.

[RichardCranium]

Electric cars are the way forward, or hydrogen burning IC engines like the BMW ones.

A decent mass transit system

[doodab]

Where are you going to get the Hydrogen from?

Electrolysis of water has to be the long term goal, although algae can also be used to produce it from sewage and other waste. This latter option does produce CO2 but as the CO2 is all produced in one place it should be easier to deal with than from a car exhaust. Having said that I'm not hopeful about this carbon capture and storage technology.

[DimPrawn]

Where are you going to get the Hydrogen from?

Water, using solar, wind, wave and nuclear energy to split the water.

[Churchill]

Most biofuels aren't nearly as green as they were made out to be, and they will almost certainly never be carbon neutral.

http://www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk/...pros-and-cons/

Electric cars are the way forward, or hydrogen burning IC engines like the BMW ones.

Where are you going to get the Hydrogen from?

[doodab]

Most biofuels aren't nearly as green as they were made out to be, and they will almost certainly never be carbon neutral.

http://www.thegreencarwebsite.co.uk/...pros-and-cons/

Electric cars are the way forward, or hydrogen burning IC engines like the BMW ones.

[chef]

so Dp, you're saying burn it all and use it all now and don't worry about future generations.. an interesting if controversial approach

[DimPrawn]

all the better then eh DP, start using all that addictive black stuff instead and then no more rainforests are cut.. win win

What do you think makes a better world.

One in which a few parts per million of CO2 goes up every 100 years or one with no bio-diversity, no CO2 absorbing rainforests?

[chef]

all the better then eh DP, start using all that addictive black stuff instead and then no more rainforests are cut.. win win

[DimPrawn]

Good, biofuels are destroying vast areas of rainforests as local farmers are being paid (on environmental grounds ) to slash and burn rainforests to grow crops for biofuels.

[chef]

Biofuel government subsidy is due to end just in time for the big fuel hikes..

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