----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Nunn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Killer Bs Discussion'" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 6:32 AM Subject: RE: Emergency highway use & terrorism
> > >But this will make oil companies even richer, for turning > >natural gas into hydrogen and electricity. Go fuel cells! Go > >electric cars! :-P > > > >Alberto "guess who is my boss now" Monteiro > > > Sometime in the last year, President Bush signed a bill committing a huge > chunk of money for hydrogen fuel cell research. The caveat was that the > money had to be used to find ways to convert oil into fuel useable in fuel > cells. Clearly that was special interest legislation designed to protect > the interests of his family and friends. No, it is clearly the most practical, ecconomic means of filling fuel cells. The alternative is to burn fossil fuels in power plants and then use the electricity to break water into hydrogen and oxygen, fill fuel cells, and then run cars off the energy obtained by recombining the hydrogen and oxygen. > Ultimately, I think that the bulk > of hydrogen will come from hydrates harvested from the seabed. > I mean, isn't the ultimate goal to move away from fossil fuels? As a long term goal, sure. Fuel cells have little to do with that. If you look at http://marine.usgs.gov/fact-sheets/gas-hydrates/title.html you will see that the hydrates are useful as an energy resource because of the methane that is part of them. I think it is best to think of these as a fossil fuel. Methane, btw, is a very strong greenhouse gas, with 10x the effect of CO2. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
