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Oddball · 09-17-2003, 01:42 AM

I really see the future as what Fallout was. Overpopulation leads to over consumption leads to desparate grab for resources leads to fighting leads to nuclear war.

Hydrogen fuelled cars seem promising but it does take natural gas to produce hydrogen.

There is some project going on in Australia about this huge solar powered tower thingy. It has fields and fields of glass panes surrounding it and it is designed so that the sunlight heats the air underneath the glass and rises through turbines in the tower.

There are a zillion alternatives to petrol. Petroleum should be used to build, not to burn. I think it was Dimitri Mendeleev who said that if your going to use petroleum you might as well fuel your oven with $100 bills.

However, ATM I say that in 100 years mankind won't exist. When you think about it dinosaurs lasted millions and millions of years and it seems that mankind's history is but a blink of an eye in the history of the Earth.

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Oddball is Offline Senior Member Posts: 991 Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Queensland,Australia	09-17-2003, 01:42 AM I really see the future as what Fallout was. Overpopulation leads to over consumption leads to desparate grab for resources leads to fighting leads to nuclear war. Hydrogen fuelled cars seem promising but it does take natural gas to produce hydrogen. There is some project going on in Australia about this huge solar powered tower thingy. It has fields and fields of glass panes surrounding it and it is designed so that the sunlight heats the air underneath the glass and rises through turbines in the tower. There are a zillion alternatives to petrol. Petroleum should be used to build, not to burn. I think it was Dimitri Mendeleev who said that if your going to use petroleum you might as well fuel your oven with $100 bills. However, ATM I say that in 100 years mankind won't exist. When you think about it dinosaurs lasted millions and millions of years and it seems that mankind's history is but a blink of an eye in the history of the Earth.