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Originally Posted by sugarpop

Biofuels are not a myth.

I never said they are a myth. After all, golf carts have been operating for generations. Ethanol has been in Brazil for decades. But I said replacements for petroleum based transportation fuels are not viable. We have and are stuck with petroleum energy sources for generations to come. Even in theory, there is no viable alternative. There is just no other energy source that packs so many joules in that same weight.

Current solutions are the same ones we needed to implement even in the 1970s. In ten gallons of gasoline, how much energy actually does any productive work? Between one and two gallons. The rest gets wasted - does nothing productive. Therein lays the problem. Even upping that number to three out of ten gallons is a major accomplishment. Not only are we stuck with petroleum. Look at the numbers. Solutions are possible. But only if we stop listening to wacko extremists and start demanding more innovation.

Where could other energy sources come from? Even nuclear is not a viable solution if we do not solve the waste problem? But quantum physics - a potential source of future solutions - has been seriously impeded in America. Especially when White House lawyers rewrote research papers for the greater glory of their political agenda. Part of the contempt for "doing more with less" that has been particularly promoted by extremists of the past decade. Even quantum physic research must now leave America for nations that more wanted to advance mankind.

Yes, there are other energy sources that can supplement our petroleum demands. But we are stuck with and have no *viable* alternatives to petroleum.