The Hydrogen Hoax

The New Atlantis.com ^ | February 8, 2007 | by Robert Zubrin

[dangerdoc]

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[BenLurkin]

Bookmark to see what I can learn from FReeper engineers and scientists.

[rellimpank]

---ah so--from the hydrogen hoax to the ethanol hoax---

[RightWhale]

Zubrin has had a remarkable insight at least once. He better stay on the Mars campaign trail since that project is flagging.

[anymouse]

Hydrogen ping

[Red Badger]

Hydrogen Fuel PING!......

[mbynack]

If you want to get plentiful unbound hydrogen, the closest place it can be found is on the surface of the Sun; mining this hydrogen supply would be quite a trick.

We would have to work at night. ;o)

[Red Badger]

Thanx.....But what about all that WATER VAPOR! It's a greenhouse gas!..........We're all gonna die!.........

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

Yes. The science in this article is accurate. Essentially all the hydrogen is combined with oxygen in water.
Separating the two takes energy, more energy than is obtained when the hydrogen and oxygen are recombined in the burning process.

There is no easy solution to the energy problem. Whatever the solution is, I don't know of any politician able to say anything sensible about the subject. Eventually the free market will solve the problem.

[NickatNite2003]

A paerfect example of lying with the truth.

Small, safer, boilerplate nuclear
plants, designed for the task,
can produce hydrogen in abundant
supply, without breaking a sweat.

[patton]

He neglected to mention that the largest contributor to green house gasses is - water vapor, the only output of an engine that burns hydrogen.

[curiosity]

What is needed is government action to break the vertical monopoly on the automobile fuel supply currently held by the petroleum cartel.

And this guy accuses others of being charlatans? LOL. What a crock. Yes, there's a petroleum cartel, but it's not a virtical monoply. The only thing that has been cartelized has been crude production (OPEC). The refining and distribution businesses are highly competitive. This guy needs to study some economics.

This could most efficiently be done simply by mandating that all new cars—whether of foreign or domestic manufacture—sold in the United States be “flex-fueled.”

This idiot is pushing ethanol? Obviously his skills for identifying hoaxes aren't very good.

[Irish_Thatcherite]

We'll have to use vegetable oil....

[mysterio]

The whale oil salesmen talking about how crude oil will never be better than whale oil.

The laughing crowd says man will never fly.

It's impossible for man to reach the moon, too, didn't you hear?

[Irish_Thatcherite]

He neglected to mention that the largest contributor to green house gasses is - water vapor, the only output of an engine that burns hydrogen.

And water, unlike CO2, actually affects the climate!

[headsonpikes]

Hydrogen would work as a fuel IF the government subsidized a nation-wide network of monorails!

Also, has anyone considered re-visiting Swift's idea of distilling sunbeams from cucumbers - that would be a great cottage industry!

Surely, the US government can afford to invest a few paltry dollars pried from the grasping fingers of Republicans to save planet Earth and all who sail on her!

uh.../sarc.

[martin_fierro]

Exhibit "A" in my campaign for a law that "Greek Fisherman's Caps Should Only Be Worn By Greek Fishermen."

[Fierce Allegiance]

My ping got lost with all the Anna pings and replies.

[tfecw]

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