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To: Wonder Warthog; snopercod
Suggest you closely read Mr. cod's post #9 above. Do you have knowledge or experience with which to convince the skeptical that your statements are anything more than a pipe dream? Most of these alternate energy sources belong in that category.
14 posted on 03/24/2002 3:19:59 AM PST by FreedomPoster
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To: FreedomPoster
"Do you have knowledge or experience with which to convince the skeptical that your statements are anything more than a pipe dream? Most of these alternate energy sources belong in that category."

"Mr. cod"'s arguments, while in themselves factually correct, actually are strawmen. The hydrogen economy is NOT talking about liquid hydrogen. Transmission and storage will be as compressed gases, not liquid. Sure, hydrogen-air mixtures become flammable at 4%--but we already know how to work with hydrogen--thousands of laboratories do it every day (running gas chromatographs with flame ionization detectors)--working with hydrogen is actually LESS dangerous than filling your automobile up with gasoline. The "invisible flame" problem is fixed in a manner analogous the the current use of natural gas (natural gas is odorless--so we ADD a chemical which has an odor--for hydrogen we ADD a trace chemical which emits light in the visible spectrum if there is a flame--a few ppm of benzene vapor will probably do the trick). Using hydrogen safely is NOT rocket science--despite Snope's assertions to the contrary.

42 posted on 03/24/2002 6:47:47 AM PST by Wonder Warthog
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