Uh, Chernobyl comes to mind.. :P
http://www.kiddofspeed.com/chapter1.html
--- Rick Barnes <barnesrv@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> Why not nuclear?
>
> Rascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@bent.twistedbits.net] On
> Behalf Of Mr. Plow
> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 12:21 PM
> To: dakota-truck@dakota-truck.net
> Subject: Re: DML: RE: Hybrids (was: Hybrid Escape)
>
>
> The planet needs to move as whole away from
> dependance on fossil fuels.
> There are a ton of different ways to get power that
> is totally renewable,
> solar, wind, geothermal, they can even put turbines
> in the ocean and produce
>
> power from the naturally occurring currents.
> Not one single source of alternative power is going
> to totally do away with
> our oil needs, but if we take a holistic approach,
> the need for petroleum
> would be drastically reduced.
>
> Big oil is the problem though, if they were smart,
> THEY would be the ones
> developing the new types of power, instead they are
> wasting their money and
> efforts trying to squash all attempts at getting
> away from our oil
> dependance.
>
>
>
> The Adam Blaster
> Two words, figure it out.....
>
>
>
> >
> >
> >Hehe, yup!! read a big series of articles that were
> being wrote in several
> >different places (editorials in car mags (several),
> one or tow of the big
> >mags such as newsweek or time, and quite a few
> online sources) Anyway, they
>
> >all were coming to the same conclusion. It is just
> a smoke and mirror type
> >ploy. The fuel cell is cleaner burning which in
> turn make the consumer
> >happy to have a clean burning car but on the back
> end it uses basically the
>
> >same amount of oil to produce (some figured it was
> more) due to the much
> >higher need for electricity and the process itself
> lends itself to high
> >fossil fuel consumption. They may find ways to
> circumvent that in the long
> >run but any business is going to aggressively try
> to protect their
> >interests (in this case oil companies) so that will
> not be a primary focus
> >i think. Of course coal comes into play more here
> also since it can be used
>
> >for this type of process but in the end all the
> pollutants just come out of
>
> >a factory than a car. Nice idea but the back end
> logistics need to be
> >legitimately brought forth and looked into solving.
> >
> >Jeff Durling
> >
> >BTW, DC announced a few months ago that the hybrid
> durango was dead, not
> >due to it being possible to build, but they felt
> there was a lack of
> >interest.
>
>
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