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"I'm not discounting the problem of plastic waste"

Burning petroleum is a problem. Making useful things from it is very much less so. The value of the products that can be made from a barrel of oil can easily total thousands of dollars. Isn't that much better than the 10 dollars or so they make from turning it into fuel? I'm not discounting the...

Sodium mining is a lot less polluting than lithium mining. Sodium batteries are already appearing in cars even though they don't yet have the energy density of lithium batteries, but that will change...

My method doesn't require dilithium (so no "Burn" danger). It uses hydrogen ions within the interstitial octahedral sites of the face-centered cubic lattice of palladium to accumulate parallel ion sheets along crystalline matrix discontinuities that release Casimir Effect vacuum energy upon...

That makes no sense. It takes more energy (usually electricity) to split hydrogen from water than you get back when you use the hydrogen. You can't split hydrogen from water for free. Just use that initial energy source to run the vehicle. OK, second read, I'm thinking that maybe you are...

Toyota has hydrogen engines that produce water as a combustion product, but they do not run on "water". The energy comes from hydrogen that you have to put into a hydrogen tank. It is currently selling one model - the Mirai - but so far only California has even the lowest necessary level of...

You have to input more energy to produce hydrogen from water than you will recover when burning the hydrogen (or running it through a fuel cell). Just use the original energy input directly for higher efficiency. It is just a matter of time before these free energy hucksters start claiming that...

Those nuclear batteries use radioactive isotopes, which are a waste product of nuclear power - but they are not depleted uranium. The new "nuclear batteries" encase those isotopes in artificial diamond or manmade ceramics to make them "safe"(ish). They are actually just heat batteries with a...

Wash water is not a hazard, but that can't be said for all grey water. It is easier to prohibit all grey water than to specify an exception you hope will be correctly followed.

The Sienna, and many other hybrids, use an Atkinson Cycle Engine, which is more efficient than the usual Otto Cycle engines that need to be used in direct drive vehicles. The Atkinson engine runs at optimal speed and torque for generating electricity. It is probably just as efficient, if not...

I'm not impressed with a cost analysis comparing gas to electric that amortizes the cost of the electric vehicle and generating capacity of the electric utility but doesn't do the same on the gasoline side. Besides - those numbers are largely false - the amortized production costs of electric...

We should be deliberately weaning ourselves off, but I don't see much evidence of that. Gas use is increasing due to low price. Fortunately gas produces less CO2 than coal and oil, so that helps reduce overall CO2 production from what it would otherwise be, but it doesn't eliminate the problem...

We aren't deliberately weaning ourselves off coal. It's just that since fracking began natural gas is so much cheaper than coal, and it is relatively easy to convert a coal power plant to gas, that demand for coal has collapsed.

An all-electric RV just doesn't seem reasonable with the present infrastructure. But a plug-in hybrid would be great. If the Atkinson Cycle generator was Flex-Fuel it could run on regular gas when necessary, but use E95 or straight Ethanol when available to keep your dinosaur consumption down...

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Social Security is not a 401K. It is insurance with a retirement benefit.

I think you can get handicap motorcycle license tags in most states. I've seen them in Michigan.

Some untried musings: I've always wondered why home refrigerators aren't located on an outside wall so that the coils can be exposed to outside air instead of "conditioned" (heated or cooled) inside air. In summer they would dump the excess heat outside instead of fighting the air...