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The real problem I see here is space travel. We could very likely find ourselves trapped on this planet for hundreds of years without the energy to continue a space program.
Diesels could work.. if you can get them over the initial weight of the amount that would be needed to lift off into space. Electric motors won't lift a satellite.
If we do this right we'll have windpower up everywhere. Like, everywhere. You won't be able to look out upon a field and not see at least one windmill. They will be high above the cities, they will be poking out of ocean waters. We'll have so many solar panels above cities that the heat is actually reflected out, negating the effects of the missing ozone layer. We will have under-water current mills endlessly churning along, and power string buoys in the Harbors generating power whenever the waves start or a boat goes by.
We'll wear sneakers that generate small bits of power when we walk to power our cell phones and our cars will have hand or foot pedals that we can occasionally spin to operate the motor. We can't beam a string of coherent molecules through teleportation, but we can move elements via teleportation and that will only get better. We'll have no more trucking, but instead hydrogen will be beamed to gas stations. Shipping will continue on the oceans and statically induced ground-effect flight will be free and possible through ocean based current-driven Tesla coils that power passing ships and planes.
Where we go from there will be up to you as voters.
And if you can remember my post in 2004, Republicans would make the switch to alternative fuels longer and more drawn out - and they have. Were Kerry in, we would be seeing $6 gas RIGHT NOW and would have been since 2002.
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Photons are a physical massive object when observed. I'm not saying move ME to the moon through teleportation.. just the simple elemental atoms. He3 fits that bill quite nicely. I have no reason to dismiss this from a realm of possibility.
there have been lots of very efficient ways to get to space though - the space elevator for one. Brilliant idea, refined to work.
I'll tell ya somethign that kills me - the gas prices have been out in the open, it's the Electric bill I received this month that blows my mind. Same usage as last month, twice the price. It's now averaging me $200 a month to heat my place, (AVERAGE!) and now my electric bill doubled. That'll kill me way more than high prices at the pump.
-> Steve
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And yes, utility bills are horrendous these days.
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Photons are a quirky little subject. Most physicists believe that a photon has zero mass, however putting that up against Einstein proves that it doesn't work that way. It is possible however that a photon has no mass at rest, but we have no possible way of measuring that as of yet.
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if cars ran off piss...we'd be set
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i cant believe the uncertainty principle came up on HS....where has this board gone....we used to have thoughtless honda freaks. Now we are having discussions on quantum physics.
God help us if we get into M-Theory.
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no...not a thread on theoretical physics....the true geek in me will show through...i just want to be an ass hole.
PLEASE LET ME JUST BE AN ASSHOLE.
The real problem I see here is space travel. We could very likely find ourselves trapped on this planet for hundreds of years without the energy to continue a space program.
Diesels could work.. if you can get them over the initial weight of the amount that would be needed to lift off into space. Electric motors won't lift a satellite.