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Bookmark to see what I can learn from FReeper engineers and scientists.
---ah so--from the hydrogen hoax to the ethanol hoax---
Zubrin has had a remarkable insight at least once. He better stay on the Mars campaign trail since that project is flagging.
Hydrogen ping
Hydrogen Fuel PING!......
We would have to work at night. ;o)
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.
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.
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.
We'll have to use vegetable oil....
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.
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ALL LIES! We don't have hydrogen because of Bush & Cheney! Ok, I'm kidding. Interesteing science stuff
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Actually, Bush & co. have been in contact with a time traveler from the future who has explained to them how it and other things can easily and cheaply be done. Believe that? Good as globle warming I hear. Oh, he explained that too. Says, algorejr is a hopeless nut.
Yeah, but if we're to get rid of gasoline, an energy carrier the one thing we really need. We already have ways of generating large amounts of relatively cheap energy (fission). We don't have good ways of running cars with it, however. Hydrogen is not as good as gasoline, true, but it has the potential for much denser energy storage than chemical batteries.
Ethanol is a more practical fuel for vehicles than hydrogen is right now, but I think the problems with hydrogen are more likely to yield to technological advances. Give it ten years of serious effort, then we'll see.
BTTT