More than a billion cars to hit the road
Gas guzzlers highlight need for new technologies.
An economic assessment predicts that the number of private cars on the world's roads will skyrocket from today's figure of just over 600 million to between 1.4 and 2.7 billion by 2050, doubling or quadrupling their carbon dioxide emissions.
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It is terrifying.Govts all over the world are fast succumbing to the automobile lobbyoblivios of theirown self destuction.Cycling must be actively propogated by all nature loving citizens of the world.Rani
Posted by: Dr.A.S.RaniPandian | November 18, 2006 05:07 PM
What's the point of projecting the demise of our environment (not to mention health) from fossil fuel based cars to 2050? After all we all ready have those problems as well as major traffic jams in urban areas. The solution is to apply a carbon tax on companies based on the number of vehicle miles driven by their employees to work, or some more sophiticated variation of that theme. The alternative for people who spend their time working from computers at work is to work from computers at home. For them telecommuting is the alternative mode of transportation. In many cases it makes little sense to drive to work just to sit in a cubicle and type at a computer keyboard. Moreover, telecommuting would reduce other costs such as car insurance, lost time from infectious disease, and corporate office space. In addition, it would reduce transport time for trucks, an increasingly popular if inefficient mode of moving goods in America. Telecommunications technologies, particularly bandwidth, are sufficient for most telecommuting needs and they are improving. Who knows, this might even alter the way people socialize, which is one of the benefits of corporate offices. Perhaps telecommuters would spend more time with neighbors than colleagues?
Posted by: Tom Shillock | November 20, 2006 09:27 AM
because hydrocardons are the compact and powerful fuel for cars early, today and forever, so the best technologal decission would be cheap sudstitution of fossil fuels by artificial fuels synthesized by renewable energy from air and water and as possibility from sequistrated GHG too. The synthesized fuels could be KAC (47% NH4NO3 + 37% carbamide + 16% H2O) or solid solution of NH3, sinthesized menhane or methanol and so on. I havedeveloped some cheap technologies as for renewable energy generation as for articipial fuel production suitamle for moderate climate regions
Posted by: david judbarovski | November 22, 2006 04:22 AM