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Originally Posted by Hollywood376
I hope I don't need to put on my tin foil hat.
If someone had a better answer, we would be using it. There are probably even some really good alternatives, but the problem is that it's more than just inventing a better mousetrap, it's getting everyone to use it. Even if there is better technology, it takes the efforts of the people that use it to convert, which costs money because the infrastructure is already built around those energies.
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Yup, sorry... get that tin foil hat ready. :D
It's not a matter of people changing their ways or making different decisions. There have been plenty of great alternatives invented over the past 30+ years in the area of ground transportation, but the giant of the industry, the auto companies and oil companies always seem to find ways of buying out the technology or quashing it in some way. I'm actually surprised that the latest hybrid technology is allowed to thrive and exist, but that's likely because it isn't about cars running on water or batteries or solar power.
Seriously, go ahead and invent a car that runs on any resource other than at least some gasoline... and then try to sell the idea to the big auto makers who control the industry. None have ever decided to run with such advancements in the past, I wonder why?
But my point in my earlier post was more about comparing this to other technological advancements. Look at computers for example... today's average home computer is more advanced and has a higher memory capacity than the one from back in the 50's and 60's that they used to run NASA. The leaps in that industry in even the past 10 years is staggering, yet here we are after 100 years of driving cars STILL chugging away polluting the atmosphere with gas.
It rather astounds me is all. And now it astounds me that it doesn't astound you.
