{"id":695,"date":"2007-07-19T02:17:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-19T02:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=695"},"modified":"2013-04-29T10:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T02:59:36","slug":"solar-taxi-vs-oil-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/solar-taxi-vs-oil-storm-695","title":{"rendered":"Solar Taxi vs Oil Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Solar Taxi is a 3-wheeled solar powered car that started its world journey on 11 July 2007. The car is driven by Swiss teacher Louis Palmer.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/07\/solar-taxi.jpg\" alt=\"solar taxi\" title=\"solar-taxi\" width=\"468\" height=\"300\"  \/><br \/>\nThe Solar Taxi [Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubergizmo.com\/2007\/12\/solar-taxi-attempts-to-circle-globe\/\">Ubergizmo.com<\/a>.]<\/p>\n<p>The official site is solartaxi.com [but it is a terrible site; badly organised (a hodge-podge of languages) and with some links going to pure advertising sites]. After a lot of persistence, I finally managed to find the English language blog <i>Solartaxi<\/i> (which has since disappeared).<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised at first to read some negative comments from Off-Grid [no longer available] about Solar Taxi, but I have to agree that there seems to be a large \"hype coefficient\" with this venture.<\/p>\n<p>However, I wish Palmer well and I hope the journey raises awareness of what has been possible for many years, and must become a reality soon.<\/p>\n<h2>Oil Storm<\/h2>\n<p>I saw the drama <strong>Oil Storm<\/strong> last night. This is a chilling story (made in 2005, before Katrina) of some very real possibilities, some of which have subsequently come to pass:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A large hurricane destroys the oil facilities in the US gulf states<\/li>\n<li>Terrorists attack oil facilities in the Middle East<\/li>\n<li>The US economy plunges into a depression, with shortages of all basic supplies<\/li>\n<li>A crash on Wall Street<\/li>\n<li>The Chinese outbid the US for oil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oil_Storm\">summary of Oil Storm on Wikipedia<\/a>, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MXYJeBt7rko\">trailer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oil's days are numbered. Sell your SUVs. Sell your Hummers. Go green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/environment\/solar-taxi-vs-oil-storm-695#comments\" id=\"comms\">1 Comment<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Teacher Louis Palmer has begun his around-the-world trip in a solar-powered car, while Oil Storm has many sobering messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}