01/16/2024
This is a little long. Sorry. My car runs on C8H18, which is only hydrogen and carbon. Mostly hydrogen. When I drive, my engine produces carbon dioxide, water and nitrogen oxide. The trees and grass absorb the carbon diode, CO2, and convert it to oxygen, O2. The water, H2O, evaporates and helps those same trees and grass thrive. The nitrogen oxide, NOx, of course is not suitable to breathe but most ends up converted to oxygen and nitrogen as it passes through the catalytic converter. About 98% of it gets removed. C8H18 is gasoline and is considered a fossil fuel. When I look at the molecular structure and how it burns, releases energy and is modified through modern automotive technology, I can't help but think of it as a "natural fuel". The earth has been producing oil from organic plants and animals for 3.7 billion years according to the fossil record, so it makes sense it is still creating oil 24/7, although no one writes about this or even mentions it. Its the rate of oil creation that seems to be unknown. However, there was a time not that many decades ago when the experts claimed that forests and trees would be wiped out, but technology reversed this trend. For example, we are on the third re-forestation for the lumber we use to build homes and hardwood forests are currently being regenerated at a rate faster than consumption. Why can't we speed up oil production combined with more efficient use and the production of cheaper synthetic oil? Here is my point today: If we re truly going to have reliable and sustainable energy, we absolutely must have choices. Going all-electric is a prescription for disaster and we already see this with brown outs, black outs, major and localized infrastructure failures and a demand that has already stripped supply. At one time we had wood, coal, oil, natural gas, propane, electricity, peat (in some parts of the world), paper, water to produce electricity, wind, solar, and nuclear, among other minor options. To mandate electricity at the sake of other options, even if it is produced by some of those other fuels will only result in more government control over our homes and businesses, energy rationing which is already occurred in a number of states and giving governments a convenient excuse to control it, and last but not least, a direct and real risk to our health and national security. This is not a new topic and everything I wrote can be found elsewhere from other sources. What we have to understand is that the push toward an all-electric society has nothing to do whatsoever with the environment. It never did and never will. In truth it is about controlling the lives of every person on the planet. You control energy, you control travel, you control food production, you control warmth, you control people. If you take a moment to consider that its not about the environment considering the obvious environmental damage being done by alternative energy processes, then the real reasons come into focus. So do the solutions.
