Where are the new concepts going to come from if this is the best there is?

[Terry Martin]

Fuel injection is one of those concepts that make you go DOUGH! However,
fuel injection is exactly that, a homer. What to do for an encore?
Clearly hydrocarbons can not be used even until my kids lifetimes, as a
primary energy source. The entire concept is heat related, and I wonder
what we would have now, if the restraints of the global system were
imposed upon the development of new systems. Obviously, hydrocarbons are
not only limited, but lethal.

It is a function of the universe that sentience = development. Is fuel
injection the answer to our requirements for travel? I suspect so, as it
reduces the fuel comsumption to discrete packets, rather than analog
estimates. 

Are hydrocarbons the most efficient fuel? Given our predisposition of
arriving at the worst answer first, by gross generalizations, I suspect
not. Logic even predicts not, by Okham's (Occam's) Razor.

What assumptions must be made for an emerging industrialized society to
accidently come across the most efficient fuel and systems within the
lifetimes of the original inventors? Lots. And that logically means it's
improbable.

With fuel injection as our best guess for volumetric efficiency, I would
bet that other technologies will overlap, and reduce or eliminate
altogether a costly, inefficient, and wasteful source of energy. When
electronics, by virue of theoretical physics determines that water (for
instance) contains the accesible ingredients for 100% recycleable
energy, a lot of oil wells are going to be abandoned or integrarted
(most likely). 

(Now I should start a web site devoted to why not???)

Terry Martin