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On Oil's Sesquicentennial, The Dream Becomes a Nightmare

John - The Neodyinium shortage SOLUTION!

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On Oil's Sesquicentennial, The Dream Becomes a Nightmare

John - you must be smarter and wiser than your statement indicates:

"But the idea that functional and cost-effective technologies have been developed, proven and then hidden for the sake of corporate greed needs to be smashed. Business does not work that way. The technologies either didn't work or they involved too many collateral costs."

Collateral costs may just include "making a change", period; which won't happen until the competition dictates, and which sometimes cannot happen because of IP rights ownership; where the change being called for is not only both functional and cost effective, but beneficial to everyone. But, NIH, and NIMBY, NOMW (not on my watch) which can be solely based on short term performance greed. There is plenty of evidence if you travel in those circles.

NOw you also happened to pick another good example, regarding Neodynium. The motors I happened to mention in my earlier posted comment SPECIFICALLY DO NOT USE NEODYNIUM; THEREFORE, THE MOTORS ARE APPLICABLE TO WINDMILLS, HYBRIDS, ETC., WITHOUT CAUSE FOR, OR A CALL FOR CHOICE, IN THE DILEMA YOU STATE.

I'll find you some info.

If you didn't know this, consider what else may be lurking around the corner and hidden under many corporate rocks and unbrellas.

On Oil's Sesquicentennial, The Dream Becomes a Nightmare

WayneS: as you point out, even the consumer ROADBLOCKS because of his selfish greed for comfort and freedom. As you said he could carpool, use a transit system, etc.......but he doesn't!

On Oil's Sesquicentennial, The Dream Becomes a Nightmare

I agree with Alphameister - we have opportunities galore using known and proven technologies, even much more the yet to be developed/applied, to not only use less energy or other forms of energy but other ways of doing things, ALL OF WHICH HAVE BEEN ROADBLOCKED, MOTHBALLED, SMOTHERED, OR BOUGHT AND SQUASHED, all for the purpose of protecting a current cash cow and avoiding capital investment: short term performance v/s long term viability of the greedy capitalist. Just wait (sic), and the "next" Japanese electronics and/or auto industry will show the US CAPITALIST MINDSET how to win the war. We have the proof!! Almost 30 years of proof!!!!!!!

A few other examples: windshield wiper blade materials that wear and work "forever"; electric power transformers made of amorphous metals that significantly reduce core losses; powerful efficient electric motors with magnets not using exotic materials; efficient thermionics permitting no-moving-parts-engines or eliminating the standard internal combustion engine in automobiles; try a new powerful electric motor driven nose wheel on 737 jets that not only allows moving about the tarmac from landing to takeoff without using it's engines but also provides backing-up from the terminal without a tug; and all controlled from a joystick in the cockpit (hppt:wheeltug.gi). What we need is a desire to innovate instead of looking for the next handout and bonus. Like Edison, Bell and Westinghouse had. We are a sick bunch of capitalists.

Our innovation stops where real hard work begins: ask wall street and all the paper pushers and service industry.

U.S. Plans for Boosting Alternative Energy Supplies and Conservation

lamarque = tell that to Brazil.

U.S. Plans for Boosting Alternative Energy Supplies and Conservation

You will see more hybrids before more pure nat gas vehicles on the highways, including trucks. We don't need nat gas to move 18-wheelers as Boone says. Rails will do that trick. And hybrids will do the trick, on diesel, biodiesel, gasoline - no bottled/pressurized gas necessary except in well regulated fleet or in-plant services. No highway nat gas refueling station infrastructure required, and few at-home filleruppers.

Obama's Green Promise

Obama wants to be elected. I want to solve the problem.

Considering much of the flux flow between free enterprise, unfree enterprise, natural and contrived disaster, who's on the take, corporate greed and personal greed, I am convinced that we need to create our own crisis to get off oil and coal and the natural resources we BURN before we find ourselves in another crisis without a paddle - not unlike the '73 embargo and the '78-79 gas crunch (we know who caused eash so we know who the enemy is - an as you know we, the American consumer and American Business, are not exempt).

So let's do the unthinkable - the action and the results are not new - other nations have done it - it's time we did it. Put a $5 BURN TAX on each gallon of gasoline and diesel, equivalnet mcf of NG, ton of coal, lb or gal of propane etc., - A BURN TAX - where ever; from wherever: import or domestic. That tax (God help us because it goes to DC) is to be used only for installing infrastructure like electric railroads, electrified inter/intrastate hiway ferries, electric grid improvements and expansion (beefing up) to handle 20 Quads/yr, INCLUDING SOLAR AND WIND HOOKUPS.

In addition, the electrified railroads, electrified hiways and power grid will have an attached lesser TOLL TAX for prime-movers (the railroads, the ferries, the utilities) and a CREDIT REBATE (reduced fee) for baseline users (John Q Public and businesses).

Doing this:

1) the Govt provides the means for the common good which is it's role,

2) making the profiting entrapanuers pay to play (ie., the capitalistic risktakers placing their bets), and

3) forcing thru taxation (punishment) and relief (rewards) the behavior change desired where,

4) additional capitalistic risktakers will develop the additional means to make it all happen (the R&D, investment, and providing of solar, wind, electric vehicles, hybrids, etc., etc, whatever the need).

5) AND THE GOVERNMENT HAS TO DO WHAT IT HAS ALWAYS DONE, PUT A TAX ON IT'S PEOPLE AND NEVER REMOVE IT.

AS THE BEHAVIOR CHANGES THE PUNISHING TAX NATRUALLY EVAPORATES (NO MORE BURN; NO MORE TAX).

AND THE NEW ECONOMY IS ESTABLISHED FOR THE NEW DESIRED BEHAVIOR WITH BURDEN AND REWARD IN PLACE, BOTH PAYING FOR USE; AND NOT KNOWING IT, AND SATISFIED.