On 4/5/2013 2:27 PM, Brad Lowe wrote:
Scientists at Virginia Tech are working on a breakthrough energy
technology to convert plant sugars to hydrogen with efficiencies > 100%.
http://scienceblog.com/62111/game-changer-in-alternatve-energy/
- Brad
This is all smoke, without an accounting of all the costs that may pertain.
Consider the windmill, driving electrolysis. Converts water to hydrogen
with no fuel input whatever, which could be taken to imply an infinite
efficiency, and yet is barely (depending on subsidies) feasible for this.
Their technology may involve huge capitol outlay, horrendous polluting
byproducts, very fast enzyme wear-out, difficult biomass procurement and
processing, ruinous shifting of farm ecology...
All is gloom, we are doomed.
Ol' Bab
