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Today I was all excited to find an article about oil and alternatives on the website of my favourite radio station, and that they have a special radio broadcast ("reality check)" about the topic today. Alas, the disappointment!

http://fm4.orf.at/connected/207392/main

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he possibilities for reducing, if not replacing, oil in our energy futures seem limitless. The question is: is there the political will and will the industries react in time? These days it's a fact that the big oil manufacturers like Shell and Chevron have invested heavily in these alternatives and some governments from Iceland to Japan and down to Brazil are working hard to end their fossil fuel dependency as quickly as possible.


It sounds boring perhaps to think about the chemistry, the physics, the mechanics involved but I guess at least some of us can be glad that someplace out there someone is doing the thinking. Personally I vote for Professor Hydrogen and a guy in France they call "the sun prophet."
That's aerospace engineer Guy Pignolet who tells Chris Cummins in this Saturday's Reality Check about what's going to happen in the far-off future when there'll be huge solar panels in space, built from asteroid-provided space materials so they can take care of our future energy needs. He does admit we'll have to be able to have enough space stations and astronauts or robots in space first to get the job done. Maybe I'll be driving by then but somehow I doubt it.

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Regardless of the article, which I didn't find the time to read (these days I fly over articles anyway rather than reading them - sounds familiar..?) I loved the picuture since I ride motorcycles myself. This one looks like an insect - the live form that carries the currently highest probability of survival. (not necessarily the one of the fittest -luckily - otherwise we beer drinkers would loose out).