I believe I just heard the sound of one hand clapping. :-)
S.
On 2/9/07, Eugen Leitl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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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