From: Tony Williams 

[alternatives to oil]

Glenn Meadows wrote:
> Such as?

Figuring out the most viable would be a good start. Interesting article in
the latest Sci-Am about combined hydrogen/superconducting pipelines. Seems
a bit blue-sky to me but they make an interesting case.

Then we have all the usual suspects like solar, wind, tidal, biofuels. With
the price of oil so high these all look a lot more attractive and if oil
prices stay high there will be (fingers crossed) time to develop
infrastructure and expertise enough that at least some of them will become
cheaper than oil even if oil prices fall.

And let's not forget nuclear.

Personally, I'd like to see decent electric or hydrogen-burning cars.
Centralise any pollution production to where the electricity is generated
or hydrogen cracked so it can be dealt with more efficiently.

> I just finished reading John Stossel's latest book, "Lies,
Myths...", quite
> interesting.  He goes into some interesting depth on topics such as energy.
> An interesting read.

 From the summary and reviews he appears to be one of those "love him or
hate him" types who has an agenda to push. Nothing wrong with that for
entertainment, but how is he on the science?

--
Tony

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