Western Australia is leading the nation in the search to develop clean, 'zero emission' fuels from renewable resources by providing major funding for one of the world's first major trials of hydrogen fuel cell buses.The Department for Planning and Infrastructure is leading a two-year trial of three Daimler-Chrysler hydrogen fuel cell buses on normal Perth suburban routes. The trial is due to end in September 2006.
Partners in the venture include one of the world's leading energy companies.
Hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles produce no greenhouse gases and create no smog. They are quiet and are predicted to be cheaper to maintain and operate than internal combustion engine vehicles. www.dpi.wa.gov.au
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Imagine
The invention of cars
Never happened
~
Imagine
Hovercrafts
Freely available
Powered by hydrogen fuel cells
Monitored by GPS systems~
Just a press of the home connector
And a hovercraft
Soon waits by your door~
A neighbour needs one too~
The system knows~
And so a larger craft
Is selected automatically~
Two passengers
One trip~
Imagine the wisdom
Of air corridoors
Where traffic controllers
Network safety
Speed
Direction
And you have all the time
In the world
To dream
Thoughtfully
Beyond your window
Of second chance
11 comments:
as i read thru this i was transported back to the old scifi movies and the hovercraft's they said we would be transporting ourselves in... i am wondering if they invented them simply as futuristic vehicles,, or if they for saw the energy crisis we were headed for....
Wonderful. I simply love poetry about the sciences!
Makes one wonder......
"Why is it so?"
I remeber that from somewhere ;-)
its great to see new technologies for public transport taking off like that
One can only imagine what it would have been like today!
Clever and thought provoking too. Nice one.
Gemma,
The advancements in technology and its positive benefits - the human mind has the power to create, but sometimes it is sad that the same mind is also capable of using technology to destroy.
I think we should nurture more minds that could create and use technology to sustain us like this you've shared. This human achievement is inspiring.
I wonder when my country could afford this? We have a lot of great minds in the Philippines, only we are governed by rotten few.
I'm sad to see my homeland moving backwards year after year.
I wish you well.
~ Jeques
truly beautiful, i love the way you potrayed technology..
Nice work. I wonder why this hasn't happened - it was promised and written about in the last century. Hmmm. Really enjoyed reading this post!
You raise some important issues here. Real alternatives will not happen, though, until the consumer realises that big mega-corps need big systems to maintain themselves.
Oil needs big systems, so to move too far away from oil would cause the mega-corps to collapse.
Alternatives would require smaller systems, and smaller companies. Big Biz is terrified of this.
the world would be another place entirely... most thoughtful....
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