Originally posted by Skydancer
What exactly do you mean? Nuclear powered cars?I hope not. I think theres one glaring problem with nuclear technology. What do you do with all the waste?
Fusion as I understand it does not produce wastes as we have come to think of as waste. Unlike the currently used Fission process Fusion creates non-reactive byproducts or at least it will when it can be done.
It combines atoms rather then splitting them, combine them long enough and you get lead of some other dense material (perhaps I have perfected Fusion in my own brain box).
The world has proven that it will pay for the price of oil and as long as it does that nothing will change. Oil prices go up then expensive oil will be drilled and recovered, oil bearing shale will be tapped, coal gasofacation will be used etc.
The more other sources make economic sense the more moderation will be added to price increases.
This is economics 101 remember that the middle east oil is the cheapest and easiest to get there are many other sources.
OPEC really does not want an unrestricted rise in oil as it will open up more competition to them and take away there apparent monopoly.
Things will work out, in the 70's everyone went to high MPG cars and waited in lines for a ration of gas. Today we have bigger boats, bigger cars and SUV's and drive more then ever.
