From: Mark Ehle (markehle@hotmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 19 2003 - 14:30:57 PDT
It's all about effiency. If you burn all the petroleum in one or a few spots
you can control how it burns much better that if you let it burn in a
bazillion little spots. You can condense the water vapor and drink it. Try
that with the vapor that comes out of a gas engine.
An all-hydrogen future is inevitable. What are you going to burn when oil is
gone? It's just a matter of time. Besides, you can generate hydrogen from
many difference sources other than petroleum. Petroluem come from, well,
petroleum.
As far as natural balances goes, I would rather have zillions of fuel cells
than gas engines.
Mark
>From: "Dave Winslow \(Dad\)" <David@Winslow.mv.com>
>To: "Mark Ehle" <markehle@hotmail.com>
>Subject: Re: [MV] 20 years from now
>Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 16:36:45 -0400
>
>From: "Mark Ehle" <markehle@hotmail.com>
>
> > If our leaders were smart, we'd be burning hydrogen.
>
>Where would you get all that hydrogen? From oil maybe?
>
> > It makes so much sense
> > that it is almost a given that our government will screw it up. It
>is our
> > one chance to get out from under the burden of foreign oil. You can
>bet that
> > the oil lobby will make sure that never happens.
>
>Petroleum products could all be put under a special tax to discourage
>their use, to encourage alternatives, to finance research, so that a
>gradual process would evolve. It will not happen.
>
> > If we went to an all-hydrogen economy, I would gladly park my M35
>(mv
> > content!) and drive my hydrogen-powered SUV anyday. Besides, I think
>that a
> > fuel cell would work nicely in an electric duece-n-a-half! You could
>really
> > sneak around. Imagine hydrogen coming in your house instead of
>natural gas.
> > You could make your own electricity, compress it for automobile
>fuel, and
> > drink the pure water that it generates.
> >
> > Yup - our government will make sure that it never happens!
>
>The largest greenhouse gas is water vapor. I don't know how much is
>produced in a fuel cell large enough for such uses, but when a couple
>hundred million are in use, it could be pretty upsetting to some
>natural balances.
>
>But why worry about such details?
>
>Dave W.
>
>
>
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