And they will get the methane by cracking petroleum.
I get a rather grand sense of deja vu from this report, Cotty. How many
times over the years have I heard that same story? There is a miracle
break through every few years and that is the last you hear of that. As
long as you can just pump petroleum out of the ground nothing else will
be able to compete with it. What does it actually cost to get petroleum
out of the ground? A penny a gallon*, or is that too high a figure? All
the rest of the price you pay is transportation, taxes, and profits.
*yes I am aware that it takes several gallons of raw petroleum to make a
gallon of gasoline, but you get other usable stuff out of the left overs.
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Cotty wrote:
On 28/4/06, Bob W, discombobulated, unleashed:
And
put more effort and money into finding & exploiting alternatives to petrol.
Side note: filmed at Oxford University last week, watched as methane I
think it was methane) was mixed with a catalyst to produce heat and
clean steam - at room temperature! Watch as steam makes a come-back in 5
to 10 years. Also - methane (definitely methane this time) was mixed
with a catalyst to produce pure hydrogen - at room temperature.
Previously this could only be achieved with hundreds of degrees C of heat.
The company with the patent on the catalysts is called Oxford Catalysts
and floated on the London Stock Exchange last week to raise £15million
to get going.
Expect fuel cell technology to take off in a very large way over the
coming few years. Prediction: in 10 years batteries will have gone the
way of film!
<http://www.oxfordcatalysts.com/>
Cheers,
Cotty
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