In article Bertie the Bunyip writes:
"Mike Isaksen" wrote in news:KRwKj.1375$XC1.1247
@trndny08:


"Alan" wrote ...
Bertie the Bunyip writes:
I will fly as long as there is air. Gasoline be damned.
I started without it and I'll finish withour if needs be.

You say you started without - how?
Even gliders seem to need tows.

Maybe he'll build an electric motor rope launch skid powered by wind
turbines.



Could do. There's lots of ways you can winch launch. The current world
record distance flight was launched off the back of a car. Probably a
thirty second tow, if that.

I doubt that this was an electric car charged from solar or wind power,
was it? I'll bet it burned gasoline (or perhaps diesel fuel).

Point is, there's a million ways to skin a cat. If neceesity dictated, a
way would be found.

And your answer is?

Unless you have a better answer, I suggest folks start building nuclear
power plants, and looking hard at extracting carbon from the atmosphere to
combine with hydrogen from water to produce various petroleum fuels.
We are not prepared to deal with hydrogen -- I can just imagine the news
stories about the result of accidents at hydrogen fueling stations.

Alan