On Sun, Nov 25, 2001 at 10:13:45AM -0800, Jim Darrough wrote: > >"The sky is falling, the sky is falling!" > > Nuclear power is the answer. > [big snip] > Another viable option in my opinion is the hydrogen fuel cell, however >I am only a layman insofar as how those things operate. But I have some >young friends that are very excited about them, and they have been used >for years on the Space Shuttles.
I suspect for a lot of the end-user applications where petrochemicals are currently used, the hydrogen oriented approach will be more practical than the nuclear; you know better than i the degree of competence needed to safely run a reactor [0], it's even more demanding than running linux :-) [0] did y'all know that Reed College has a reactor run entirely by students? -- "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759.
