[RightWhale]

Sen Gravel, candidate for Pres, was in Alaska campaigning where he said that the USA could be free of oil in five years if hydrogen, etc., tech were adopted.

[beezdotcom]

Sen Gravel, candidate for Pres, was in Alaska campaigning where he said that the USA could be free of oil in five years if hydrogen, etc., tech were adopted.

I don't know if I buy that. Is it technologically feasible? Sure. But the only way I see it working is to build large numbers of nuclear plants to satisfy the power requirements of a H-based infrastructure. It will take five years just to streamline the approval process to ALLOW nuclear plants to be built quickly. Based on that, I'm thinking the H-based economy is a minimum of 15 years away. (Then again, I'm a bit of a cynic.)

[beezdotcom]

Sen Gravel, candidate for Pres, was in Alaska campaigning where he said that the USA could be free of oil in five years if hydrogen, etc., tech were adopted.

P.S. - I wonder how THAT crowd reacted? "Hey, folks, I can get rid of your payment checks from the pipeline in five years..."