New Technologies-glimpses of a bright new Future (2)

Flying Cars
We will soon be able to fly in our flying cars, flying dune buggies ("the Skycar", which has recently been flown to Timbuctoo, from the UK, by it's creator, and which will be on the market very soon, at an estimated price of £50,000) or scooter-gyrocopters .
We will be able to fly our cars to visit (among other places) the new:

  • forests (which will go a long way to help consume our CO2),
  • National Parks, "Game Reserves" Safari parks, vast botanical gardens
  • and other Leisure or Fun Parks which we will be able to create with the farmland, that will have been liberated the Vertical Farms in our cities and larger towns.


The Skycar (paragliding Dune Buggy) is obviously the safest of all the three "flying cars" listed here, and is due to be on the market very soon.
It has so many applications:

  • vets
  • doctors
  • rescue/ small ambulance
  • national/international travel and adventure!

The "Terrafugia", designed by ex-Nasa scientists, is due to be on the market in 2010.

Possibly the best solution for road transport.

The Hydrogen-powered fuel cell surely is the best bet for our near future in terms of road cars, and possibly all road transport.
So, why are some car manufacturers dropping the development of this fantastic and obvious solution? They make ordinary electric cars seem like dinky toys, with none of the advantages at all, especially distance before "refuelling", not to mention speed.

Oil Companies?

Why haven't oil companies been encouraged, or even compelled to fund the development of alternative means of fuelling, or powering our vehicles?
LONG AGO!

Why shouldn't they be, as they have been the cause of so many of our problems, especially in preventing the very development we have needed for so long - of these alternative energies.
It should have been done in the 1970's after the first oil crisis. Sorry Jeremy Clarkson - I love you and your brain - (so incisive, and hilarious with it!) but old technology has to go. I know you want the same thing really-remember Isambard Brunel-he would have been at the fore-front of new technologies for Transport, no?)
Calling all Oil Companies
Start paying up (for the research, into all these alternatives), and get on with it! Maybe you can cut back on oil exploration for now and put your money where it should be!
We'll still need oil for some considerable time, but less, as we progress) for our:

  • present cars which we'll still need, until enough hydrogen filling stations for the initial introduction of hydrogen-fuelled cells have been built, or existing petrol stations have been converted.
    Once started, convert more to match the growth of the introduction of the new cars.

    This shouldn't be too difficult, should it? After all, we've done all this sort of thing before.
  • aviation (until we get our replacement for that, algae) and the flying cars that some of us will be buying and flying in a year or two's time!

Bio-degradable plastics
100% bio-degradable plastics have been with us now for a number of years, and all of our plastic bags could have been made of this, but for the belief that the switch-over couldn't be done, becoause of expense.
So I've been told by the commercial director of a British manufacturer of bags made of this material.

However, if our governments were to compell all of the supermarkets and others involved, the "switch-over" could surely be made fairly quickly with a minimum effort and cost. Once the switch-over to biodegradable bags etc., has happened it should be no more expensive than our old bags.

Why has this not been done, world-wide?

Maybe with some more funding, effort and research, our scientists could come up with the final answer to provide suitable biodegradable plastic that will last the necessary lifetime for our computers, monitors etc..
They possibly could find quite quickly, suitable replacements for other plastic appliances and applications, which are made from (already bio-degraded?) oil based polymers.

All of which will prevent so many of the world's pristine beaches being ruined, oceans clogged up and wildlife being killed, and saving the need of so much of the time consuming, energy-inefficient and costly re-cycling processes.

I feel we should urge our Governments to compel the oil companies to contribute to the funding of these vital areas of research, which they almost certainly have been preventing for 40 years, or more.
Governments can surely have more power than oil companies, as it is us the people that rule here (in democracies), through our elected politicians.
Now is the time for action on all fronts-to go for the future with confidence and power, to defeat those holding us back and down, because of their greed, and hunger for power.

Politics rules our lives, and if we do nothing to shape our body politic, then we have no-one to blame but ourselves!
We all get the governments we deserve!

Bio-diesels
Surely we don't want dirty fuels of any sort, and especially not Bio-diesels, etc.?
This has caused mass cutting down of rain-forests. How absolutely criminal, (not that I'm saying any country shouldn't have the right to develop as it chooses. Cutting down rainforests to plant palmnut trees to fuel cars with old dirty technology?!).

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