There was a VOLKSEMPHAENGER for broadcasts in Germany 70 years ago and it was required not to listen to any other broadcast. So what is now needed is a VOLKSWAGEN, and no other car may be sold or operated in the interests of the carbon god and its high priests and HOHEBEAMPTER. Of course living flats and houses will also be limited as to carbon releases to a very small number of square meters per person no matter how wealthy.

In the mean time the modern European HOCHADLER, the EP, will pretend that lowering CO2 releases by ordering and building the lowest technology and fast to build nuclear reactors as demonstrated in Korea and China and Romania, the CANDU, is not one of the most effective ways of lowering CO2 releases and expenses to the government when combined with facilities to convert German BRAUNKOHLE to diesel instead of importing diesel and burning the coal for electricity. The savings to Europe in money not spent for crude oil would far exceed the costs for Nuclear power plants. All live things, including people, and almost all rocks and soil are naturally radioactive.

Assume that the use of nuclear electricity killed a hundred people every year, but added a million hours to the lives of other people as it is known to do and more, do you sacrifice many to save 100, whilst Autobahnen and motorways and ordinary roads demand the sacrifice of tens of thousands for the convenience of the remaining every year.

All of the actual "unusable" nuclear fission products now in storage would not fill a large part of the REICHTAG building much less a US Kmart store. Such storage in the Reichtag would result in fewer deaths than the Berlin Autobahnen.

I just found an article commenting upon a surprisingly large number of fatal accidents involving natural gas. And there are also the ones involving propane and butane.

People can stop any development work on improved engines to lower CO2 releases and implement known hydraulic hybrid techniques for a savings of 50 percent or more in fuel in some standard tests.

They can also be required to drive at an efficient speed.

Bosch is just sitting on the Artemis technology that they purchased after it demonstrated efficiency increases without even using the smallest engine possible, but just using the standard engine that was tested prior to conversion.

The theoretical NOAX INNAS hydraulic hybrid would use their innovative mechanical, not electric, pumps, motors and hydraulic transformers. At least one steam locomotive shipped to North Africa had electrically operated valves that anticipated the Artemis idea by half a century or more.

DLM and Roger Waller have demonstrated a steam car. A miniature Junkers or Pescara free piston compressor could give the vehicle infinite range on air compressed by diesel fuel after the steam ran out.

When coal was short in Switzerland the use of electrically heated steam lokomotiven was succesful. Such machines should be kept in reserve at the Chunnel since they require no moisture sensitive electronics and are less than one-eighth the cost of diesels. The frequency does not matter and they also could have heaters that ran on 700 volt third rail at little extra cost.

Because of the tax on diesel, electric operation may be cheaper than diesel and long gaps can be made in simple alternating or direct current third rail new electrification systems. No power peaks are required for starting such trains. A diesel fired furnace boiler can give longer range at very little extra cost and lower NOX as demonstrated by Roger Waller.

All countries with large indigenous Coal deposits should use them for making liquid automotive fuels and chemicals instead of using imported crude oil.

If ordinary %4 fuel uranium for European reactors were reformulated with about 80 percent Thorium and put into a CANDU reactor, a thorium cycle could be started within a week.

A version that used about 90 percent thorium and the highly unexplosive mix of plutonium isotopes from spent fuel rods that also could have weapons plutonium in it to render it useless for bombs would eliminate all plutonium eventually and very usefully if desired in CANDU reactors and some others even. Every pound of any kind of plutonium used in such a cycle produces heat equivalent to 3 million pounds of coal and any worries about the long term storage of plutonium vanishes.

Plutonium obtained from the reprocessing of MOX fuel in France is not usually used but it can be mixed with thorium and used completely over time in the neutron efficient CANDU reactor. This secondary extracted plutonium has such large quantities of neutron and gamma emitting isotopes that a bomb is impossible to make with it, and the use of centrifuges to make simpler uranium bombs is far more easy and cheap to accomplish.

Reprocessing of uranium and thorium fuels should be required by permanent treaties similar to the one banning the production of FREONs. Automatic processes can make the reprocessing more than safe enough and cheap. The uranium recovered has a low level of radioactivity similar to natural uranium found in most rocks and soils

I was recently told that the Shippingport reactor was a net producer of fissionable fuel from thorium even with its light water moderator. But without reprocessing, the fission products would poison and stop the reactor and require new fuel.

..HG..

Since vehicles are exported worldwide, an international standard would be more efficient. However, such a compromise would be very difficult to arrive at but not impossible. It should be easy to block entry to vehicles not meeting the international standards.We are doing with toys, why not with vehicles?

There are about 40% less polluting and a very far cry from 0%. Using SG instead of NG will make it worse. Pollution from Shale Gas (SG) extraction is a lot more than what the general public has been told.

In the long term, a SG power plant may produce as much total pollution as a recent coal fired power plant.

HG solution (Nuclear) may be better.