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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (363862)12/20/2007 9:14:41 PM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1578900
 
Suffice to say that there isn't a Moore's Law for the internal combustion engine.

And there doesn't need to be. We have the technology today to be energy independent. It's a matter of choice.

But like I told Mindmeld, I wouldn't mind treating energy independence as an urgent matter of national security. The bipartisan solution would be to both drill for our own oil, including ANWR, fund tons of research into alternative energy, pursue clean coal technologies, and promote more efficient technologies such as compact fluorescents and hybrid electric cars.

That's right. And I'll give you ANWR if we get the rest (though it wouldn't be necessary but I'm sure it would make you feel better).

BTW, did you know that with the new energy bill incandescent bulbs go away? Everything goes to CF; not sure of the time frame. The impact of that alone will be huge.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (363862)12/20/2007 11:17:26 PM
From: bentway  Respond to of 1578900
 
"promote more efficient technologies such as compact fluorescents"

Apparently you missed one of the big items in the new energy bill Bush just signed. It MANDATES progressively more efficient light bulbs. The first big change you'll see is there won't BE any more incandescent bulbs. Eventually, even fluorescents won't be efficient enough, and we'll have to go to LED's or whatever we've come up with by then.