yes it is bizarre how profit is the primary engine of the corporate capitalist economy - and also strange that supply so closely follows demand, as long as it's profitable ... until the demand outstrips the supply - you'd think that something so plentiful as petroleum would be pumped full bore alla time, tho suprisingly enough virtually every oil field in the US is producing less every year now :confused:
and an internal combustion [heat] engine 80% efficient? last I heard the
\'theoretical\' max is 40% , and that's at a set rpm and
ideal fuel and exhaust temperatures - have to find some new principles of thermodynamics first - have you ever thought about just how much energy it takes to make those pinhead-sized chips? prolly lots more than printing the billion books!
there are however, folks
working on improving the dinosaurs that push our vehicles around, and there are even other ways to
go about making good use of thermal energy fortunately, there's likely to be more profit in finding non-fossil fuel forms of energy to move us around considering the bleak outlook for petro resources, but you could always tag onto
the profit stream and reap some of it for yerself
Bill
