• EvilHankVenture@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    I believe they crush technologies, but most of the things you mentioned aren’t true. There were no spaceships possible in the 1930s. Why crush that technology when they could have conquered the world with it? It’s not possible to run cars on water. The thermodynamics just doesn’t make sense. We have cars that run on biofuel, but mass-converting vehicles to that would drive up costs of food. Ethanol for fuel already does that by using farmland that could grow food.

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 month ago

      the last point are just the current status. there are various approaches to solve those issues, which could be explored more.

      one examples that comes to mind is ethanol from algae, which live in salty water. i remember seeing a documentary about it, staying that you could just place them in big tanks in the desert. there they wouldn’t compete with food for land.

      I’m not saying that this example solves everything, just that there could definitely be more research.