Hmm, I guess technical conversations are not very intelligent. Oh, well. On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 11:18:36AM +0100, Eugen Leitl wrote: > On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 02:05:57AM -0800, Danese Cooper wrote: > > > I don't know about it being a hoax, but I did hear Reed Benet from UC > > Davis call their grants for research into hydrogen fuel "blood money". > > There's still a lot of research needed in hydrogen, though it's > a long shot. There are much simpler and necessary short-term options, > which start with laws mandating all new ICEs to be able to > utilize M90 (and E90, but that's strictly dessert). Simultaneously > you'd have to do a price ratchet (done via taxes) on fossil fuels, > so industry can commit into Fischer-Tropsch plants, and synmethanol > via direct methane oxidation. Then you'd have to do reformers, and > DMFCs, and, yes, direct hydrogen, and novel PV, and high-efficiency > electrolysis, and composite tanks and infrastructure R&D in > general. Not to forget straight battery and supercapacitor, and > composite chassis mass-fab, and similiar. It's a lot of work, > and we should have started it >35 years ago (many people pushed for it > then, but it never made it into mass media). This is all > completely obvious, and has been two generations ago, and it > just makes me tired and angry that people as a whole (and those > incompetents in office who claim to represent them) are not Getting It. > > The longer we wait, the more difficult and nasty it will get. And nevermind > that a fossil price spike could be the catalyst to trigger the > Next Great Depression, which is overdue. There's simply not enough > money for above investments available then.
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