Will our love affair with the motor car ever end? Some day, it must – unless we can develop sustainable sources of energy to replace those we derive from fossil fuels. Will they be derived from renewable resources?
EVERY day, the human race consumes a million billion kilojoules of energy by burning fuel. Every year, we burn up the same amount of energy as we would get from 8 billion tonnes of oil. In practice, though, we acquire only two-fifths of the energy from burning oil itself, the balance coming from other sources such as coal, gas and nuclear energy.…
