26-04-2014, 06:38 AM
(25-04-2014, 08:29 PM)RetroPug Wrote: The engine in your car is the result of significantly more than 100 years of continued innovation and design work on ICEs.
Petrol engines worked 100 years ago but they were very, very shit.
you make a good point but it's not the one i'm trying to make, i wasn't saying innovation isn't good, but at this point in time, the people developing newer kinds of engines have to come to terms with the fact that ICE's are a dead-end, and that no amount of 'ooh i can reduce the friction here and make it more efficient there' will get round the fact that oil will run out probably in our lifetime, and that the public will have to make a change to reflect this.
to a certain extent i think that some of the newer technologies like hydrogen aren't taken seriously because companies are still trying to 'innovate' on ICE's, and it'll be too hard to abandon oil
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