Of course they do... I propose a temporal jump of 201 years, back to 1807: François Isaac de Rivaz is sitting in his office, open windows, breathing pure, CO2-poor air from the swiss alps. He is smiling and eating cheese and chocolates. Today is a great day for him. He thinks about future: “what are people going to do in 201 years?”- he looks at his newly conceived internal combustion engine. He enjoys his new marvellous creation. A car propelled by hydrogen combustion! WOW, "this is so hot!", I am sure, in 50, maximum 100 years everybody will drive light, secure, fast cars driven by hydrogen combustion!". He feels so good. He drinks some wine and eat some more cheese. He starts basking again in his grandeur: "in 200 years I will be so famous, everybody on earth will know my name". He falls asleep but suddenly he is shaken by frightening nightmares. 2 oily-smoky-bloody-gory monsters are now crashing his hydrogen-jewel. Noooo! His beautiful work of art forever destroyed. His oeuvre gone lost. He cannot see anything, there is so much smoke around, but as the monsters turn their back and slowly walk away he can now notice 2 big tattoos on each monster: "Diesel" and "Benz". he wakes up coffing and shivering. But he realizes at once: fortunately this was just a dream.
François Isaac de Rivaz was a swiss engineer. He invented the internal combustion engine in 1806 and later the first car moved by such an engine. He was powering his invention using hydrogen.
interesting links on oil vs renewable energy:
- Winning the Oil Endgame: a great, freely available ebook by Amory Lovins et al.
- A Solar Grand Plan by Ken Zweibel, James Mason and Vasilis Fthenakis published on the January 2008 issue of Scientific American, freely available
- Cleaning the Air and Improving Health with Hydrogen Fuel-Cell Vehicles: a paper published on the prestigious journal Science, freely available upon registration: this paper describe how driving clean cars not only makes you save money but would clean up air, thus lowering Asthma attacks and even saving lifes.
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