It would be possible to have a robot horse now, with the new technology. Such as the tech that allows the horse to stay balanced.
I would love to have a small farm with a couple of horses, as long as I had someone who could take good care of them.Are you converting to Amish?????
Sheesh, why don't you check out facts. In America, there are far more Internal Combustion Engine fires than EV battery fires per mile driven. The clue is in the name - combustion. That's data courtesy of the National Safety organisation.Horses also don't get thermal runaway and spontaneous combusion... they just poop; but that's better than literally exploding.
Looking at total Chinese imports, Iranian shadow exports only account for 10% of their total daily imports.There is no free lunch
OK, so that is going to cut off oil going to China. If they enter the global market they will bid the price up. If they can't get oil their economy grinds to a halt. China's economy is like one of the two engines to the world's economy. One way or another the world will pay for this oil being cut off. It is a zero sum game. All the sanctions have done is make the oil that Iran ships to China more expensive. Either that means Iran gets less profit or China has slimmer margins. But either way it enters the global market chain. Also, cutting off oil from Iran and Venezuela to China threatens China existentially. This is why Japan entered WW2 and it is likely going to be the reason China enters WW3.
Reminds me of the Black Knight scene in Monty Python's "The Holy Grail".
I understood that Iran produces 5% of the world's oil and prior to these attacks on Iran's oil, they took out about 5% of the world's oil from the other Mideast nations.Looking at total Chinese imports, Iranian shadow exports only account for 10% of their total daily imports.
Iranian exports to China have averaged about 1.03 million barrels per day in 2025.
Therefore the impact of an Iranian shutdown is far from apocalyptic.
"Using a modest figure of 1 million barrels per day (bpd) as a baseline, here is how that stacks up against China’s total daily imports as of early March 2026.
Currently, China’s total crude oil imports are averaging between 11.5 million and 12.5 million bpd."
Had horses for a while. Vet bills and farriers and feeding and poop shoveling is...... epically exhausting. And you had better be fit whole and healthy.I would love to have a small farm with a couple of horses, as long as I had someone who could take good care of them.
China is adopting EV's faster than anywhere in the world. That means less dependence on oil imports. EV owners don't worry about fuel prices. Last year, 50% of new cars sold in China were battery electric. It's amazing what can happen when a country is not beholden to the oil industry.Looking at total Chinese imports, Iranian shadow exports only account for 10% of their total daily imports.
Iranian exports to China have averaged about 1.03 million barrels per day in 2025.
Therefore the impact of an Iranian shutdown is far from apocalyptic.
"Using a modest figure of 1 million barrels per day (bpd) as a baseline, here is how that stacks up against China’s total daily imports as of early March 2026.
Currently, China’s total crude oil imports are averaging between 11.5 million and 12.5 million bpd."
No....Iran presently produces something like 1.5% of global production.I understood that Iran produces 5% of the world's oil and prior to these attacks on Iran's oil, they took out about 5% of the world's oil from the other Mideast nations.
Now add Venezuela to the equation of oil being cut off from China and for China it is apocalyptic and for the rest of the world it is enough to break the camel's back of this global economy. The US will be fine, but other nations will collapse into anarchy and chaos.
Hydrogen powered? Avoid it like the plague. I spent 15 years dealing with oil and gas industries. Hydrogen is terrible to work with, dangerous, difficult to handle, produce and store. There are no successful hydrogen powered cars. Busses, yes. You would not get me on one or anywhere near a refueling station.![]()
Kawasaki's four-legged robot-horse vehicle is going into production
What was announced as a 2050 pipe dream by Kawasaki, the company's hydrogen-powered, four-hooved, all-terrain robot horse vehicle Corleo is actually going into production and is now expected to be commercially available decades earlier – with the first model to debut in just four years.newatlas.com
They are building an all terrain rideable horse.
I know it says all terrain, but you would not expect to walk thru a river with it.
Because I wasn't comparing them to ICE vehicles, I was comparing them to horses.Sheesh, why don't you check out facts. In America, there are far more Internal Combustion Engine fires than EV battery fires per mile driven. The clue is in the name - combustion. That's data courtesy of the National Safety organisation.
Had horses for a while. Vet bills and farriers and feeding and poop shoveling is...... epically exhausting. And you had better be fit whole and healthy.
It's a full time job. And expensive.
There is no money to be made in horses that's for sure.
Hydrogen powered? Avoid it like the plague. I spent 15 years dealing with oil and gas industries. Hydrogen is terrible to work with, dangerous, difficult to handle, produce and store. There are no successful hydrogen powered cars. Busses, yes. You would not get me on one or anywhere near a refueling station.
You obviously do not remember the so-called oil shock in the 1970's. There was panic a few decades ago that the world is running out of oil. The "chicken little" people have been proven wrong over and over again. There are still vast reserves in the ground. There are a number of producing nations that can make up any shortfall. Like the 1970's, there may be some problems. But anarchy and chaos? No.I understood that Iran produces 5% of the world's oil and prior to these attacks on Iran's oil, they took out about 5% of the world's oil from the other Mideast nations.
Now add Venezuela to the equation of oil being cut off from China and for China it is apocalyptic and for the rest of the world it is enough to break the camel's back of this global economy. The US will be fine, but other nations will collapse into anarchy and chaos.
He's already A-mish-mash.Are you converting to Amish?????