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To: DBrow
And won’t until it’s developed. As for ugly, that depends on details yet to be discovered.

In that case why don't we use dilithium crystals like on Star Trek.

No need to build real power infrastructure, just wait for the dilithium crystals....they are right around the corner!!

55 posted on 02/28/2008 6:55:01 AM PST by AdamSelene235 (Truth has become so rare and precious she is always attended to by a bodyguard of lies.)
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To: AdamSelene235

“In that case why don’t we use dilithium crystals like on Star Trek.”

Because there are wind turbines, there are offshore platforms, there are electrolysis plants, and there are ways to compress, store, and deliver hydrogen. I work at a lab that gets regular deliveries of H2 because someone runs a furnace with a hydrogen atmosphere. It shows up in a regular truck.

All the pieces of the technology exist, they just have to be put together.

Dilithium does not exist (to be a true Trekkie I should say does not exist YET), so like mining helium-3 on the moon for nonexistent Earthly fusion plants, we’ll relegate that to fantasy. There are people actively working on antimatter, but it is so costly that it will be only for very exotic applications, not for a hybrid car.


57 posted on 02/28/2008 7:12:57 AM PST by DBrow
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