Horace > Though this is all good discussion and the approach may yield practical results for a while, it is important to realize that wind can not solve all the worlds energy problems, and working on a new *source* of energy is the big problem.
Yes. I agree with most of what has been said here. My main purpose was to make the pima facie case that a *cryo-fuel* might be the best choice for using wind energy, which could easily end up supplying as much as 10% of our national needs, if not much more as Jed believes. ... and also... foremost, really, is that we should not automatically assume that because the Petrocracy *wants* hydrogen as the next step, that they are correct. Follow the buck - isn't it because a hydrogen economy would still allow methane to be used long after it should have been legislated out of the fuel business and into the less profitable plastics/chemicals business.) I know... (if Ed is listening and remembers) that just last year, I argued for the hydrogen economy and he against it for other reasons, but there is nobody on vortex who will switch eco-horses faster, once the evidence is firm, and this is starting to shape up a bit. Anyway, the more I think about the possibilities, not of CA (cryo-air) itself but of an enhanced CA, especially when using the aforementioned speculative enhancement - that is, the Bridgman/Casimir/AEH expansion effect as a booster, if such is possible, then the more appealing CA becomes. The only problem is that it does tend to __screw__ big oil, and that possibility might, according to some, lower my life expectancy <G> So be it... Just say adieu to CO2, Jones Warning !! the following is slightly OFF TOPIC... and is rather vulgar and profane. (I don't think that will keep many readers from indulging however) Here is The FCC Song ...written by Eric Idle. Maybe the famous song-twisting duo of Terry and Keith can reword it for the benefit of the DoE. Fuck you very much the FCC Fuck you very much for fining me Five thousand bucks a fuck So I'm really out of luck That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me So fuck you very much the FCC for proving that free speech just isn't free Clear Channel's a dear channel So Howard Stern must go Attorney General Ashcroft doesn't like strong words and so He's charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limbaugh So fuck you all so very much So fuck you very much, Dear Mr. Bush For heroically sitting on your tush For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies who fail Let's send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail She's an uppity rich bitch and at least she isn't male So fuck you all so very much So fuck you dickhead Mr. Cheney too Fuck you and fuck everything you do Your pacemaker must be a fake You haven't got a heart As far as I'm concerned you're just a pasty-faced old fart And as for Condoleeza she's an intellectual tart So fuck you all so very much So fuck you very much, the EPA For giving all Alaska's oil away It really is a bummer When I can't fill my hummer The ozone's a nogozone now that Arnold's here to say: "The nuclear winter games are going to take place in LA" So fuck you all so very much So what the planet fails Let's save the great white males And fuck you all so very much
