Hmm. Perpetual motion. Nice thought experiment. However, this sort of strawman argument is precisely why western civ is in such trouble. The techies are constantly promising silly crap like your perpetual motion car. Just imagine if we could all have our own personal aircraft! Soon nuclear energy will make electricity too cheap to meter! Dioxin is harmless! Asbestos is good for your baby's sleeper! Don't worry, we'll fix that little thalomide baby with these really keen artificial limbs!

But the comments I make earlier still hold. This issue is not if we can do this ridiculous thing, the issue is should we given that a continuation of this environment destroying technology will continue to destroy the environment.

I've got news: no environment, no humans.

I make the argument that cars do work. So what? They work to destroy the environment. As to whether it is a technical argument, of course it is a technical argument. The technical aspects of so-called advances in society are destroying the natural world without which we cannot live. TECHNICALLY, that would be a really stupid thing to do, no matter how cool the tech may be.

Think outside the box, the self-limiting box the techies love to create. Think in terms of systems, planetary systems, not the niggling little worries about whether we should kill the planet with THIS cool automobile or THAT cool automobile.

Here is a thought experiment, think of a world without the car. Ahhhhhh. See? So pleasant, so calm.

I have already detailed why continued use of fossil fuel will be a spectacularly dumb thing to pursue. That covers point one. I have no doubt that someone will come up with a way to use it. None. But why do so? Why keep the human factory going? Do we need to continue to grow? Do we need more humans? Do we need more autos, clean or otherwise? Can you see that the environmental footprint of the automobile is immense and destructive?

As far as the second part, separating morality from can-do-itness is the bane of western civ. So, you would have me believe that we should separate the two. It's okay to research Cyklon-B so long as we don't talk about what it does to people in "showers." It is okay to talk about the technical aspects of GM corn as long as we ignore the morality of peasant farmers having their fields contaminated. Waterboarding is okay as long as we don't examine the morality.

Yeah, I can see why it is so important to separate morality from our little technical projects. Wouldn't want to have to think about consequences or some such wooly-headed idea.

Hateful? Saving millions of people from the inanity of our techno-civ is hardly hateful. Not that it will happen. Too much money to be made in murder. Look at war, look at refugees in Sudan, look at our system of destroying whatever we need to in order to insure our way of life.

Our idiotic healthcare system is a fine example. You did know that people without insurance pay as much as ten times as much for the same service as the insured? All that technology and we ration it. We essentially let people die in order to enrich the insurance companies. All that technology and we let people die. Nope, don't look at the morality, because It will only make you not want to look in the mirror.

The other night I saw a reprise of a 60 Minutes interview with Mel Brooks. He was talking about his show the Producers, the show that features such fun songs as, "Springtime for Hitler."

Asked why he wrote something like that, something that seemed to make light of such a dramtically awful and scary subject, he said he did it because it is the only way to deal with such dreadful people. To kill them would be to become them. To ignore them would enbolden them. But, to laugh at them, to point and laugh at them and get the rest of the world to do so, now that is accomplishing something.

I am now pointing and laughing at the people who believe that we can tech our way out of this crisis. They are unknowingly acting as Fuhrers leading the world down a really bad and destructive path. They think they are doing right by the world, but they are not. Physics pretty much puts the kabosh on that.

So, I encourage everyone to point and laugh at the techies. Their illogical ways need to be drowned out with laughter.