In a recent Fast Company article, inspiring multi-fuel solutions to our current fuel problems are highlighted:
“Johnathan Goodwin can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental, cut emissions by 80%, and double the horsepower. Does the car business have the guts to follow him?”
Overall the story is amazing. You’d wonder, why isn’t the auto industry doing this already, especially when
“They could do all this stuff if they wanted to,” he tells me, slapping on a visor and hunching over an arc welder. “The technology has been there forever. They make 90% of the components I use.”
Later in an article, one line jumped out at me:
Boeckmann believes hydrogen is the true “silver bullet” for ending greenhouse gases but thinks it’ll take more than a decade to figure out how to create and distribute it cheaply.”
The problem is that this quote seems to assume that car fuel and driving is the source of carbon dioxide and thus, our main problem can be solved by changing fuels. He is leaving out the fuel and energy to manufacture the cars and trucks and every other manufacturable widget in existence, fuel to transport fuel, energy to run businesses and homes and construction and everything else. People driving cars is an issue and we need to address it, but it is a small drop in the bucket.
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