On 6/26/2010 3:56 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 6/25/2010 2:27 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
>
>> In other words people a hundred years from now will live in a smaller
>> world where someone in Hartford doesn't date someone in New Haven, for
>> example (electric cars don't have the range for that).
>>
>> I think that in the long run efficiency will be sacrificed for utility
>> and they'll just make and burn hydrogen, which eliminates all of the
>> shortcomings of battery electrics and with a suitable carburetor works
>> fine in conventional gasoline engines besides.
>
> In other words people in a hundred years from now will be driving
> carbureted, internal-combustion, piston engines? That's so groovy, man! :-)

I'm sure some will, just as some people today drive Model T Fords.