California Air Resources Board eyes future ban on gas-powered engines | The Sacramento Bee. (Comment
In looking back over many decades I'm not certain how I became the inventor/builder. Probably an early, unexpected success carried me off on that track. And many of the inventions were quite good and very profitable. Historically speaking, first to market thinking dominates the invention/innovation cycle, and people pick up on, or try to solve the people killing, 'unanticipated' consequences later. AC power, about one third less efficient than DC, gave us the grid, because DC wasn't transformable in the beginning of electrification. Now the largest power lines in the world, such as the Pacific DC Intertie are pure DC. For a truly illuminating look at why DC is so much superior to AC read the WIKI article THE PACIFIC DC INTERTIE. But, we have mostly wasteful, inefficient, first to market AC. Thank you Tesla, and really Westinghouse.
Internal Combustion, IC, is an even better example. Exhaust pollutants directly kill about 1.5 million people worldwide each year, and indirectly kill millions more through atmospheric pollution induced respiratory problems, poisoning entire regions, such as the California Central Valley. And, even more consequentially, pollution is making the planet progressively less habitable. But IC was first to mass market, and it had range. We'll solve the city ruining, people killing consequences later, if now they can be solved at all. The first discovery that being in a closed space with a running internal combustion vehicle brought death, was the right time to realize that the entire Earth is a large closed space, and millions of people are dying basically from exhaust.
Indeed the email string is long and filled with good ideas and memorable phrases. On top of everything, now in transportation everyone is taking a lithium-ion variant battery powered vehicle first to market: if history contains lessons, a certain guarantee that approach is wrong.
And if I had truly mastered the American technology con, promising a brighter electric transportation tomorrow, while actually delivering vast slag heaps of depleted lithium battery sleds today, we'd all be further along, like Musk, who mastered overcharging people with a credit card project before turning to overcharging people with heavily subsidized, over priced electric cars. And as an aside, inventing a better brushless motor/generator, and architectural super capacitor as both necessary structure and electrical storage isn't as easy as one might think, especially with a very limited budget.
Way back in July I predicted in emails that the new ACTIVE ROOM BOUNDARY REFLECTION CONTROL SYSTEM church building would be ready in mid to late September. All ready in mid to late April now is probably right. Where all goes from that milestone who knows?
