Eco-friendly Travel In the 21st Century!

The car has always been a must have luxury since the very first model hit the roads... and yet I continually find myself asking, why? My current sardine tin with wheels is a 1997 Vauxhall Vectra 1.8 LS, which I've had for just over 3 years and I've replaced virtually every part of it. Today, with my father's assistance, I had to replace the petrol tank. It took us from 9:30am till after 8pm, because you can't simply remove the petrol tank, first the exhaust has to come off, then the suspension has to be dropped.

Surely, in the 21st Century, a better mode of transport can be devised. Ideally, I want to be able to step into a pod outside my front gate and instantly reappear at the location of my choice, because:

• Travelling takes too long
• Travelling is uncomfortable
• Travelling alone is boring
• Travelling with others is annoying
• Cars are unreliable, costly and non-eco-friendly
• Roads are unreliable, costly and un-eco-friendly

They should scrap cars altogether and introduce a new form of transport, something that's free, green, fast and comfortable. I'm sure it could be done, and I'm sure I know why it won't be done, because the greater good doesn't interest oil companies or the government, only money interests them, and their eco-friendly pretence is so transparent. For starters, any form of free or cheap energy will mean a loss in income for oil companies, that's not going to happen. Any form of free or cheap energy will mean a loss in income for the goverment, from the huge amount they gather from both crude oil and at the pumps. Not going to happen. They call for cheaper and cleaner fuels, then tell us we'll have to pay more for that, it's ridiculous. Aeroplanes are bad for the planet, but if you give us more money, that should fix the problem.

Inherent Power In Stones?

Continuing from yesterday's theme of "Maybe ancient poeple were brighter than we give them credit for!", today I intend to postulate some intersting theories about stones, or more precisely, things that ancient peoples might have known about stones, that we don't!

Consider the standing stones in the image above. The image shows some stones located at Carnac in Brittany, and there are just so many of them, all in rows. The most extraordinary thing about the stones from my perspective is the fact that they march straight into the sea. At one point you can actually see the continuation on to an island not far off shore.

The obvious deduction is that the stones must be of such an antquity, that they must have been raised when the land-bridge (Dogger Land) between france and England was still intact, and quite possibly even, a long time before that.

Many scientists and archaeologists have postulated their theories about why the stones are there, but one bold researcher indicated that the stones have grooves at the base, which look decidedly like thy might have been receptive to cabling. Wild specualtion you might suspect, but bear in mind that the stones have a great deal of quartz in them, which is known to have the capacity to store energy, only modern man does not know how to get it in there. If pre-historic man knew how to harness power of some sort through chaining the stones together, then you're looking at history in a whole new way.

Aside: It has been suggested that "ghost sightings" are merely replays of events that have been captured in the quartzite crystals, found naturally in stone. The theory has been forwarded that events of extreme human emotion might leave a lasting imprint at a molecular level within the stone in the surrounding area. The concept might have some merit. As you can see, I'm not a sceptic at all, I'm open-minded to almost any theory!