Why or why not?

From the same student below: Why or why not?

This part of the question has to do with

how the global variables will change over time.

FUTURE ENERGY

An extreme case would be oil running out.

Many people are working on this problem

because many experts believe that oil will

be gone in cheap large amounts in a century.

So some companies are making synthetic oil,

oil from plants, oil from gases and other things.

HYBRID FLEXIBILITY

The interesting thing about hybrids is that they

are compatible with any kind of chemical fuel:

- biodiesel hybrids (buses and semi trucks)

- diesel eletric hybrids (many trains)

- gasoline electric hybrids (most cars)

- air electric hybrids (trains and cars)

- hydrogen electric hybrids (e.g. Honda clarity)

- natural gas electric hybrids (buildings, houses, washing machines)

- nuclear electric hybrids (most advanced submarines)

- natural gas steam (water) hybrids (most power generation)

and I could go on and on because hybrids can
DIGITIZE any chemical technology and make
it BETTER, FASTER and/or MORE EFFICIENT!

CHEMICAL OR DIGITAL SOCIETY

So if oil runs out and we maintain a chemical society

and do not convert to a purely digital society powered

by futuristic technologies like crystals and string theory,

hybrids will always be more efficient than chemical engines.

HYBRID CONS

The down side is additional costs, although those costs

are going down everyday, while the chemical (gas-powered)

costs of building an engine have dropped about as far as

they can go for now. So hybrids will continue to threaten
chemical technologies if consumers pay the small extra.

SUMMARY
The hybrid is compatible with every gas-powered technology,

costs a bit more, and is in between the chemical and digital world.

If we choose a digital future, hybrids could overtake gas-powered

and then electrics overtake hybrids as our chemicals run out.

If we choose a chemical future, we'll continue to have wars

over natural resources and we may just end civilization

before we can burn up all the things we dig up.

Hybrids are compatible with
BOTH
a chemical and/or digital society!