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To: Timeout

It's about time the simpletons realize there are no easy answers. There are just some answers that make more sense than others. Enriching middle eastern tyrants and allowing them to cripple domestic petroleum production has proven to be far more dangerous than addressing the technical challenges of nuclear energy. Now if they'd just stop the fearmongering over global warming... no chance they have to continue to raise money some way.


6 posted on 04/16/2006 3:46:22 AM PDT by rhombus
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To: rhombus

An inescapable fact about the fuel cell car is that it's essentially an electric car with a battery that can be recharged, by filling it with hydrogen, as a conventional car can be refueled by filling it with gasoline. Hydrogen, however, is not a primary fuel--it has to be obtained by expending more energy than it will ultimately yield when consumed by a vehicle. The most efficient way to obtain hydrogen is by electrolyzing water, a process that would require vast amounts of electricity compared to the amount of electricity produced today, if all the other, major problems of hydrogen transport and use are solved. If that electricity comes from burning fossil fuels, there will be even more greenhouse gas emissions than there are now. Thus, significantly reducing our dependence on foreign oil by converting to hydrogen powered vehicles necessarily requires us to expand substantially our nuclear power industry, since nukes provide us with the only presently available, economically and technologically viable way to produce the hydrogen that would be needed to power fuel cell cars.


24 posted on 04/16/2006 12:35:29 PM PDT by libstripper
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