Fuel cells are a wonderful thing. Too bad there isn't much to fuel them with. Don't even get me started on electrolysis. It's a cool science fair project, but not much else.
Steve Spence Subscribe to the Renewable Energy Newsletter & Discussion Boards. Read about Sustainable Technology: http://www.green-trust.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Addison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <biofuels-biz@yahoogroups.com> Cc: <biofuel@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2002 9:07 PM Subject: [biofuels-biz] Re: [biofuel] Hydrogen: Empowering the People > Well, I dunno. Rifkin doesn't usually get it wrong, he's been way > ahead quite a few times. I haven't read the book. But I have been > hearing about fuel cells being "just around the corner" for nearly 30 > years now. They didn't say which corner. I think I did give some > jewelry to a woman once. It didn't work out well so I didn't do it > again. Oh, I did - I gave another woman about a million diamonds. She > wasn't impressed at all, she lost them in the end. Okay, they were > kind of small. Well, they were so small you needed a 20X lens to see > they were diamonds. But they looked great through the lens, beautiful > sparklers. Fussy, some people. > > Keith > > > >Another author that is less than exact, in his attempt > >to present a "new technology". If they know so much, > >they ought to know that it is a technology that has been > >researched for more than 80 years now. New, in this > >case I am still a baby!!!!!! > > > >It has always failed on the efficiency issues. Now the > >efficiency has been improved by using a special catalyzer. > >Guess what, it is platinum, so now we must reclaim all > >the jewelry that we gave our women and start to make > >fuel for our cars. That does not work, I would not even > >suggest it to my wife. I might be crazy in dealing with > >energy saving and renewable energy, but I am not > >suicidal. The researchers themselves probably also > >have spouses, because as a comment they sad that > >it proved that it could be done and now they only had > >to find a catalyzer that could be practically used. > > > >http://energy.saving.nu/resources/efficiencygame.shtml > > > >I got several positive letters for this and they all congratulated > >me for telling the truth about hydrogen. Some of them worked > >with research on the issues. It is not a "ready for use" > >technology. > > > >Hakan > > > > > >At 08:13 AM 12/9/2002 +0900, Keith Addison wrote: > > >http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20021223&s=rifkin > > > > > >article | Posted December 5, 2002 > > > > > >Hydrogen: Empowering the People > > > > > >by Jeremy Rifkin > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Biofuels list archives: > http://archive.nnytech.net/ > > Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. > To unsubscribe, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
