From: Fred Martin (mung@in-touch.net)
Date: Sun Sep 21 2003 - 15:52:02 PDT
I watched the development of the fuel cell in the Mother Earth
News Magazine, it was slow to start...electric companies had their eye
on it. As soon as they got a good working one going...the electric
companies quickly bought into it saying it would be good for "off grid
customers". Don't you think that if hydrogen goes over that they'll buy
it up and control it...and we'll have more of the same as we have now
with petroleum? Fred Martin
Dave Winslow (Dad) wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Ehle" <markehle@hotmail.com>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2003 13:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [MV] 20 years from now
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>>If our leaders were smart, we'd be burning hydrogen.
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> 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
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> is our
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>>one chance to get out from under the burden of foreign oil. You can
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> bet that
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>>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, not becuase of the
> oil lobby, but because of people who love their SUVs.
>
>
>>If we went to an all-hydrogen economy, I would gladly park my M35
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> (mv
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>>content!) and drive my hydrogen-powered SUV anyday. Besides, I think
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> that a
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>>fuel cell would work nicely in an electric duece-n-a-half! You could
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> really
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>>sneak around. Imagine hydrogen coming in your house instead of
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> natural gas.
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>>You could make your own electricity, compress it for automobile
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> fuel, and
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>>drink the pure water that it generates.
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>
> 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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