Green transporation mediums as a driving force

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Description:

Green transporation mediums can be explained on different levels. These can include the technologies that drive such mediums such as bio and hydrogen fuels as well as entire systems such as solar powered cars and trains.


Enablers:

  • Ethanol
  • Hydrogen fuel cells(NOx)
  • Readily available infrastructure
  • Increasing price of oil
  • Geo political events in oil rich areas
  • Increasing power demand, both in home and gasoline, thus population growth is again an enabler.


Inhibitors:

  • Low cost of extracting oil
  • Economic effects of oil industries
  • Political alliances with oil rich countries
  • Millions of jobs reliant on oil and gas industry
  • Current infrastructure


Paradigms:

Before: The economy was completely reliant on oil .

Experts:

U.S. Environmental Protecting Agency, among the many other environmentologists.

Timing:

Industrialization.

Web Resources: