re: #448 albusteve

heh…but it will support your blogging habits…after all where would any of us be without dirty energy?

Very little electricity is produced with oil, which is what we extract from tar sands. (Admittedly, a lot of coal is used for electricity generation, but it’s easier to replace power plants. Electrical generation technologies are interchangeable and retrofittable. Not so much with vehicle fuels and engines.

The technological innovation we really REALLY need right now is much better batteries. If we can figure out how to store an electricity in more efficient ways than we do now, we will leap forward technologically as a culture. It’s the focal point and the bottleneck of technological innovation now. We know how to do a LOT of really cool things that we can’t put into practice yet because of that missing ingredient.