Laz,
It's not going to be us as individuals who solve what ever this is. Hydrogen power is the holy grail to eliminate CO2 emission from internal combustion engines. Bio-fuels from what I can tell pollute just as much where CO2 is concerned. Electric motor technology has an evil shadow side in the amounts of carbon based fuel it takes to produce the components and batteries.
A paradim shift in technology and the total infrastructure all the way to the final profit margin will be what solves it. "It" is the real question. Is "IT" really the foundation of energy technology our world relies on, or is the maybe possibly sooner or later world disaster called man made global warming it?
You asked for what this BBS protagonists were each indivigualy willing to do to solve the "IT". As usual the IT becomes a platform for everyone to tell everyone one else they don't agree with what kind of scum sucking peicies of watermelon they think you are and how great, wonderful, scientificaly genius prone and full of saintly virtue they are.
No one on this BBS has any interest in denying themselves anything during their lifetime. But we all WANT the paradim shift, especially with the promise in new energy technologies. No one is arguing against hydrogen or solar or the panthion of emerging technologies. But the how of acheiving the paradim shift is reveling a widening divergence in the human condition.
Because technology has turned our planet into a tiny sandbox in a virtual perspective, two definable human groups are becoming dominant life style ideologies. One wants the sandbox regulated by an oversight elite in the belief that things will run more smoothly and all changes will happen asap after the anointed genius preisthood identify and issue solutions for any problem in the universe. This is due to their basic belief that the average individual is always suspect in their general intelectual and cognitive abilities. The other group wants to be left alone to face and overcome all of the problems in the universe only banding together with others as needed. And in general believes all human beings have and can use most of the cognitive ability we all are born with if they are not conditioned to be DUMB by their ruling elite.
Laz you aint going to get any comitments or answers here. Just a measure of ideological affinities. I noticed no one wanted to talk about the two technologies I linked to. Both are interesting. The website is gizmag.com. Always very interesting technology articles there.
