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 More options Mar 13 2003, 11:33 am
Newsgroups: sci.energy, sci.energy.hydrogen
From: quibbler <quibbler...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 09:36:29 -0700
Local: Thurs, Mar 13 2003 11:36 am
Subject: Re: YA Hydrogen article - positive this time
In article <h%%ba.23207$yc5.4...@twister.nyroc.rr.com>,
jspence...@stny.rr.com says...

> >  Even if the hydrogen cycle can be made a bit
> > more efficient than current batteries, you must first charge them or

> The article states that hydrogen is more efficient storage than batteries.
> Also that it's twice as efficient in fuel cell as gasoline is in ICE.
> Question is, is the article all wrong?
> We already know there are a lot of problems with H, but are those
> insurmountable problems? They are proposing spending $100B of taxpayer
> money, is this worthwhile?

Certainly if we can afford to give 1.5 trillion dollars in tax rebates,
largely to people who don't even need the money, then we could have
afforded to spend that money on something else, like hydrogen fuel
research.  I have no objection to improving fuel cells, but it seems like
fuel cells are only a secondary part of our energy needs.  It's probably
more important to get more wind, hydro and solar power production
facilities online.  These are direct energy producers that can reduce our
dependence on imported fuels right away.  IMO, if we had to focus on a
single technology, it should be wind turbines.  These can be sited and
installed faster than most fossil fuel plants and the electricity they
produce would free up resources like domestic natural gas, which can be
used to power vehicles.  

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"Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to
evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith
is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the
lack of evidence." (Richard Dawkins)


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