Douglas Hvistendahl

The Current Stagnation of Natural Gas Vehicles in America

> Long after people have downsized their cars, changed over to electrics
> and hybrids, and moved closer to work, we will still have to heat
> our homes.
Um. I'm working toward using a heat pump (there is a new design with almost twice the SEER coefficient - development stage) to move summer attic heat into the ground under and around the house. At present, thermostat controlled fans are moving summer air through the basement and up into the house - cheap cooling and warms the soil a little. But the other, although more work, can do much more. Do a search on "annualized geo solar,"

The Current Stagnation of Natural Gas Vehicles in America

> We are the only nation in the world that boycotts our own domestic
> energy production.
True. However, it is possible to do some things on the local level. I've dropped heating costs by over half, using 18th century technology. This has given me the resources to try out some 20th century technology. The primary problem is that much work is involved.

>NO country in the history of the world
> has been economically successful without utilizing its own least
> cost domestic energy reserves.
True again. Note that families can have a different least cost pattern - in August, you can't walk through our back yard without stepping on some garden plant or other, it is so thick. A big help in finances, and cuts down on fuel usage by eliminating shipping.

>untested EV's instead.
Better to look at stored energy vehicles in general. Look up "zero pollution motors" on some search engine and examine the flow-aire vehicles which should be out about the same time. Efficiency is a bit lower, but first costs are much lower.

>Their real goal is to CONTROL THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION
> of our nation's energy, transport, banking, medicine, education and
> anything else they can get their hands on.
>
> How silly of me. That would mean we're headed to becoming a Socialist
> society. And we all know that's not possible.
They don't have any requirements for understanding and being able to make things work, either. On the other side, most entrepreneurs fail with their first three to five businesses before succeeding. This ability to learn from their mistakes is a primary need for business victory. However, entrepreneurs are notoriously hard to control, why they actually tend to use disruptive technologies that are more useful. How dare people like Michael Dell, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sam Walton and their fellow workers get rich using the underhanded methods of being more useful, while those using the tried and true methods of forcing control over the peasantry are made poor! ;-)


Suggest getting and reading, "The mystery of capitalism," by Hernando de Soto. He got interested in the question of why some communities do well, and others are poor, even when settled with the same peoples, at the same time, and with similar resources. The book is likely to rank in history with the other top major studies on economies. Eventually!