From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rafal@smigrodzki.org)
Date: Sat Jun 14 2003 - 12:52:00 MDT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Alfio Puglisi" <puglisi@arcetri.astro.it>
To: <extropians@extropy.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 9:41 AM
Subject: Re: ENERGY: Singularity on hold?
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2003, Rafal Smigrodzki wrote:
>
> >### This is possibly the best solution - you can use the electricity for
> >making hydrogen for coal gasification and make gasoline even cheaper than
in
> >the regular synthol process. There will be never a good reason to switch
to
> >hydrogen fuel, with all its environmental and societal dangers.
>
> As opposed to the smell of flowers coming out from any gasoline-run
> engine? I see the possible oil crisis as a way to finally get rid of
> gasoline and power cars on something better - the air in the cities is
> polluted enough.
>
### Are you located in Europe? That might explain your position, since cars
in some parts of Europe tend to be quite polluting. In other countries,
properly designed and run gasoline-powered cars (SULEV and ULEV designation)
remove allergens and organic particulates from the air they use, and produce
almost pure water and carbon dioxide. There is no health-related reason to
limit that. On the other hand, current batteries and hydrogen handling
technologies have high risks, including lead poisoning, explosions, and
ozone layer destruction.
Actually, it would be trivially easy to add flower fragrance to car exhaust.
This is a cool idea, now that you got me to think about it!
Spike, do you feel like patenting a car-exhaust deodorizer, with electronic
choice of fragrances? You could have nice smells, cinnamon and chocolate, or
fart smells, in case you are being tailgated. Let's found "Spike & Rafal's
Car Smell Emporium"!
Rafal
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