Experimental posting here... I'll attempt to do no major editing and just throw out 10 minutes of blog. Also, no inspiration for the post is present at the time of conception here, so that will be interesting as well.
Electric Car - Tesla Motors has unveiled its new sedan which can go 300 miles on a charge, a 45 minute charge. Pretty cool. Phenomenal battery technology exists to make electric cars viable, even for distance. But, I'm concerned with the resources that go into creating these energy storage systems, the life of these batteries and their afterlife/disposal. I know that the energy required to charge a car is less than the energy consumed by a gasoline engine... but there are other costs/benefits to analyze more closely. And cap and trade is a nice idea, but unless the whole developed and developing world is on board, the pollution just shifts to other places around the globe. If it spurs on technology that makes "old power" obsolete, that's fine, but I think we should be realistic about the global impact that cap and trade in the US can have on global pollution. I'm sure there are some easy answers, and I am certainly looking for some. To be truly successful the "green" movement has to be a complete cultural shift where we create less waste, not just recycle more plastic bottles. But what of the bottle manufacturers? There has to be a greater vision, a great vision and I haven't heard one yet that satisfies my cautiously cynomistic skeptimological side. If you formulate a grand green scheme, send it and $1 to Happy Dude, 114 Evergreen Terrace, Springfield USA.
10 minutes are up. Time for b-ball. Go Basketball.
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