<div dir="ltr">On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 10:31 AM, spike <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:spike66@att.net" target="_blank">spike66@att.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br>
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<div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4"><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125)"> > </span>Think it over: you carry a small IC running at peak efficiency and output always, you have energy storage onboard.</font></p>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><font size="4">Today's batteries are expensive, bulky, heavy and unreliable. True you can invoke improved technology to save the day tomorrow, but remember that most electrical components are astronomically better than they were 100 years ago or even 30, but there is one exception to that happy trend, batteries, they have improved only very slightly. <br>
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<div><font size="4"><br>And thanks to improving technology it's getting easier. In 2011 the USA exported more gasoline and diesel than it imported for the first time since 1949, and in 2012 the USA saw the largest yearly increase in oil production since oil drilling started in 1859.<br>
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<font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> > </span>How hard is it to extrapolate forward all the trends we already see? </font></p></div></div></div></div>
</div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4">Try extrapolating this trend, natural gas cost about $13 per million Btu's as recently as 2008, today thanks largely to fracking it's less than $2. More natural gas is being produced right now than at any other time in human history. More by far.<br>
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<div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:rgb(31,73,125)"> > How will we do when we are having to cook the stuff out of the oil sands of Canada? </span></font></p>
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font size="4">I think we will do just fine.<br><br></font></div><div><font size="4"> John K Clark </font><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>