Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/01/29

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Subject: [Leica] Further adventures of a completely screwed up guy:longandoccasionally on topic
From: dennis at hale-pohaku.com (Dennis Painter)
Date: Sun Jan 29 23:31:19 2006
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Regretfully, I think you are right, at least in the US. The rest of the
world may be smarter though.

Jim Laurel wrote:

> Maybe I didn't put this properly.  Alternative energies won't be
> ALLOWED to be economically viable until the oil's gone.
>
> I'm doing my part to help get alternative energy technology here
> faster:  E60 M5.
>
> On Jan 29, 2006, at 6:31 PM, Dennis Painter wrote:
>
> > Economically viable energy sources may be here sooner than Detroit
> > thinks.
> > http://world.honda.com/FuelCell/
> >
> > Honda is just testing, improving, and collecting information now
> > but for a
> > commute car they have covered a lot of the bases. i.e. solar powered
> > refueling station in your home. Use of capacitors instead of
> > batteries for
> > storage is one of many smart ideas about this vehicle.
> >
> > The automotive world didn't 'watch out for Honda' once, if Honda
> > gets this
> > one to market first they can only blame their self.
> >
> >
> > Jim Laurel wrote:
> >
> >> You're absolutely right, Don.  And no of the alternative energy
> >> sources will be "cost effective" or "economically viable" until all
> >> the oil is gone.  So I say burn as much now as you like.  the sooner
> >> the oil is gone, the sooner we'll get alternative energy.
> >
> >
> >
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