What a long strange trip it s been. In barely 100 years we ve gone from horses to mobile parking lots that are called our roadways. How many cars have you owned in your lifetime? Why have not we made transportation that would last us a lifetime? One car, energy efficient, practical, and lasting our whole lives. Impossible? Well yes, as long as if is fashionable and profitable for us to show off our imagined wealth by buying a new one every few years. Future generations will be amazed at how inefficiently we traveled. At what foolishness we succumbed to. Now it is soon up to you, our youth, to try to figure out how to best deal with all these pending unaffordable vehicles. This is the feedstock for your futures. Put your genius and energies to work, to learn how to salvage these materials. The alternators can be re-used, the glass for greenhouses, car tops can make geodesic dome panels, rear ends and axles can be incorporated into windmills and waterwheels. Wires, lights, and 12V motors can be retrofitted. Batteries when cared for will last some time, and we will have to develop the tools to re-build and recreate aged batteries. The average alternator will put out an incredible amount of energy with a driving source. Get together, link up your minds, share your research, experiment, create, build on this& . You can do it, and I have faith that you will. As I have mentioned, there is a prototype of a 100 mpg hybrid vehicle here in Reno. I ve driven one. It works. It is a retrofit. We can convert our cars to electric and hybrid. We may retool our autos, and use the IC engines as stationary generator/heaters. These can be mounted on stands at our homes, and run at optimum rpms to both create electric and supply space heating and hi-temp heating. Diesels are best. Nearly 75% of an engine s energy creates heat. The rest can be used mechanically. For example to create electric to both recharge your electric car, and add to the grid to power your house. The tremendous amount of heat created can be used for space heating (with suitable headers, high temperature heating, and water heating.) The energy in one gallon of gasoline -- is about the equivalent of four 1500 watt heaters running for an hour. And tho my math may be deficient, it is a lot of energy. In other words, to break this down, the amount of heat we generate in our cars, just getting to work and back, is probably enough to heat our homes and give us hot water. And more. We could probably recapture 50% of our cars lost energy as heat. Reboot, retool, and rebuild.