I think that the heading is wrong in substance, but is right in how it is used.
It is nothing wrong with fuel cells. Fuel cells for Ethanol is very promising and actually a "ready for use" technology in small applications. Around 50% conversion efficiency is quite good and is hardly beaten by any other way of storage and production from a fuel to electricity. Hydrogen is maybe fool's gold, when we talking about producing it from renewable source. Producing hydrogen from coal is an old and already in use method (City gas). Both are fool's gold from a clean environment point of view. Both together are also fool's gold when it comes to "ready for use" and environmental load aspect. Non of them are the "silver bullet" technology that we are lead to believe by the presentation by the people who represents the old energy interests. The motive for this is an attempt to put up road blocks for diversified energy production and to keep the energy business for the large corporations. It is effective and are slowing down the implementation progress of biofuels, sun and wind energy solutions. Brazil might be the next century super power. Hakan At 10:50 AM 5/28/2003 -0700, murdoch wrote: >On Tue, 27 May 2003 16:12:15 -0700, you wrote: > > >>Just got back from a long drive. I wonder when someone's going to > >>equip all those SUVs out on the road as grid-chargeable hybrids with > >>regen brakes. Boy are they burning up some Middle-Eastern Fuel, out on > >>the roads of America. I also wonder when an American President will > >>even dare *mention* the need to develop a great deal more of the > >>American Southwest with solar cells. > > > >Certainly not this one who is obviously setting up himself, his family > as well as his oil buddies in fat city with regards to post presidency > business. They guy has nothing but his own pocket book in mind when it > comes to energy and the environment. oil oil oil. > >I have been struggling with some political science analysis thinking >for some time. It is sort of this: successful ploys are often >accomiplished by mixing the bad with the good. In this case: I am not >inherently "against" oil, nor do I think all of the criticism of the >Administration is always entirely valid if it is based on some >assumption that any pro-oil policy must by nature be for the sake of >looting. But the Administration does seem to be mixing looting with >its misguided-at-best slanted oil policies. > >Also, often the worst policies are in what is left out of policy. >There is little or no discussion of PV in the American Southwest, nor >sufficiently large actual policy move to implement it. Worse, whenever >the Administration throws a bone to renewable energy efforts, a few >millions mixed in with whatever large amounts are relegated for >nuclear, oil, coal, gas, whatever, it is often for "research" rather >than purchase of American-made goods. So, what is *lacking* is a >policy of discussing and *doing* real progressive energy.... putting >it in place. And the lack of discussion of this is a primary weapon >in the arsenal of those who actively seek to stifle progressive energy >policy. It is a weapon that has succeeded spectacularly well and will >continue to do so in my view, barring some change in who has the bully >pulpit. If, for example, Senator Kerry of Massachusetts gets the >floor, he will discuss it more openly. I doubt he will gain the >presidency, for that reason. He would not be allowed, because he >would remove the lack of discussion of real progress in energy policy. > >So, anyway, the two specific things that struck me on this trip were >the lack of PV througout the "waste" lands of the American Southwest, >and the lack of regen brakes on the vehicles as they drove through >those waste lands. Never mind this nonsense that highway-travelling >vehicles don't use their brakes. Regen brakes required on some or all >vehicles sold througout the United States would be a way to change the >CAFE debate. It would not be a cure-all, but perhaps a decent >contributor among many to some progress in lessening energy use per >mile in the U.S. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get A Free Psychic Reading! Your Online Answer To Life's Important Questions. http://us.click.yahoo.com/Lj3uPC/Me7FAA/CNxFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> 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/
