<cough cough- literally from coal-fired power plants> ..... hello? Nuclear power please! Even the french realize that is the most efficient way to extract hydrogen for any sort of large scale project. They're doing it now since they have about 60 npp's supplying abundant supplies of energy. Imagine that- a country that is only about twice the size of Colorado having 60 plants versus the USA with only about 110!
----- Original Message ----- From: "David Brodbeck" <gull@GULL.US> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 1:29 PM Subject: Re: gas prices.. and what they'll be this summer
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, Tom Miller wrote: > > > Hydrogen technology is the only practical way to get the crude oil whores > > off our backs. > > It sounds great until you realize the only viable way to get large amounts > of hydrogen is to extract it from natural gas or petroleum. At that point > you realize hydrogen puts us back where we started, except with a lower > overall efficiency. > > > David Brodbeck, N8SRE > '82 Volkswagen Diesel Westfalia > '86 Volvo 240DL wagon > |
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