Coal Based Cars?

A new take on an old resource...

Human intuition. Kinda neat we are. We look at every system and search for a potential benefit. We have turned into evolving our environment for us. Our human evolution is creeping along. We are taller and smarter these days. Our collection of ideas is growing. Maybe we will attack this thirst of future energy with a rainbow of solutions, all eating tiny bits away.

If we can survive...

"For cars, he says the company's processes can be used to produce barrels of "oil" for car fuel that will cost about half of what conventional oil costs today, which is around $50.

What's the secret? Coal , a word that makes most people's flesh crawl. Silverado takes low-grade coal, pulverizes it and cooks it under pressure with water until it develops a waxy coating. The waxy coal particles are then reunited with carbon-infused water removed at an earlier part of the process to make a liquid fuel. So think of it as a coal latte. "


Coal latte, eh?

The Brain as We See It

Albany.edu - The Higher Primate's Brain and Climate

Please don't use knowledge to confirm your foolish beliefs of genetic superiority...we have intermixed among ourselves so much those benefits have fallen away (do take notice of your socialization though...). However, do take notice that as we move about in a world that is always changing our bodies and our abilities to live within it change.

In addition to the impact of global cooling, "By paying close attention to the geographic origin of each of the fossilized skulls," said Gallup, "it became clear that seasonal variation in climate may also have been an important selective force behind the evolution of human cranial capacity. Specifically, we found that as the distance from the equator increased, north or south, so did brain size."