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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (9447)	9/19/2006 3:35:12 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217662

Elroy, if you go back upstream, I was discussing what would happen in 100 or 200 years [or maybe it was 300 years] in regard to CO2 emissions. I wasn't discussing current vehicle technology, nor vehicle technology then. It was energy overall, the sources of that energy and the CO2 production which would result. There won't be 6 billion people, for a start. Neither will we still be burning fossil hydrocarbons in Otto cycle engines. Internal combustion engines are absurdly complex contraptions evolved from the industrial revolution. I'd bet $10 to a knob of goat poop that the cogs, pulleys, cams, pistons, valves and all the rest will be replaced by either one or two moving parts = the car itself [linear motor method], or maybe a motor in each wheel [if it's not superconductor levitated and propelled]. Wheels seem a lot of drama just to keep a car from rubbing on the ground. It would be better for them to fly an inch or two off the ground, in a vacuum, at 1000 kph. Mqurice