Life on the Road – Trucking News Blog

As I wrote in a previous post. Fuel prices are high and they’re going to STAY high.

And this is a GOOD thing.

(boink!!!!!!!???, this is a good thing? How can that be? Stay tuned, more on that later)

Whatever can we do?

Well, buying a new truck is right out. I checked into that this last month. To replace my old KW it would cost me just about TWICE what I paid for it about nine years ago. Not quite but almost. I paid ninety something thousand in the year two thousand and the local KW dealer wants almost a hundred and seventy thousand for a very similar replacement.

And the new truck get’s worse fuel economy.

So no thank you. I’ll overhaul and rebuild for a while.

How long a while?

That’s kind of what THIS post is about.

Things are being done. It’s possible to get diesel from other places than an oil well,

from plants, algae and trash.

$1/Gallon “Green Gasoline” In Sight

An Astonishing Innovation in BioFuels

Looking at the Leading BioMass Cooker

More details on the Coskata process for converting garbage into fuel

The Difference IS and IT Matters Because of the Money

A BioFuel Process That Works

Another Way to Bio Gasoline

That Scum is FUEL!

and on, and on, and on, approximately SIX MILLION pages on “Google”

Of course you’d never hear about it from the Liberal Media, and that is precisely why google is my friend.

So why, you ask, is high priced fuel a good thing?

High Priced fuel is a good thing because the high price causes such innovation to be undertaken. In the past OPEC controlled the production AND the price. Not this time. As mentioned in a previous post NoOne controls the price. This time price is a purely market driven phenomenon. It’s high. And it’ll stay high. The price will stay high AND the incentive to find an alternative will stay high. Eventually (soon by the looks of it) an alternative may be found, one NOT subject to overseas, antiamerican control.

But that’s not all.

As I mentioned in a prvious post it’s now possible to make Fuel from Air.

Fuel-from-air requires is a LOT of energy. Think atomic reactor. Many, many atomic reactors. If OUR nuclear industry was as heatlhy as say, that of France, then that might be a Good Thing ™. It’s not however,

Getting better though.

I could go on and on about nuclear power and it’s advantages and how the risks(minimal to zero) have been overblown to the point of foolishness. But I won’t. This is about Trucking.

But THAT’S not all.

Last month a couple of geeks in Los Alamos found a way to turn radiation directly into electricity.

As reported in NewScientist

“Materials that directly convert radiation into electricity could produce a new era of spacecraft and even Earth-based vehicles powered by high-powered nuclear batteries, say US researchers.”

And they are turning Could into Would and then into Did. Real soon now.

This is IMPORTANT!!

It has the potential to change everything and for the better. No downside.

I don’t think this is the place to go into nuclear energy but let’s just say:

How would you like to buy a truck that was fueled at the factory and never needs to be fueled, ever, ever again?

THAT important. And maybe fairly soon, like one overhaul, or two, soon.

I think I’ll hang on to my old truck for a while.

Oh, don’t forget.

Be nice to our Geeks. Be very, very nice.