"Brian Hill" wrote in message
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"John Smith" wrote in message
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Brian:

How so, where is this "hydrogen" going to come from, for free?

I have never seen pools of the stuff lying about. In college labs
I have
extracted it from sea water, strange, it takes about as much
energy to
recover it from sea water as you get back when you burn (use) the
hydrogen....

What am I missing?

John

Yea I've never seen pools of gas laying around either. It cost $s to
turn
oil into gas, right? Yes it cost money using electricity to do the
work of
extracting hydrogen, but there are other ways too that can work like
titanium dioxide & solar energy to offset the cost of more expensive
ways
etc.. My point is if there was enough human energy and $s thrown at
the
project, we would have it licked and the world would be a cleaner
better
place. There are many scientist that claim they can do it with the
right
resources and I believe them and as long as the big oil CO's are
still
selling oil it's going to be hard stopping they're lobbyist.

My thinking is that yes, it's preferable to what we have
now, but as I like to point out, there will be an impact
of some sort that we can't forsee. Remember, 100 years
ago, cars were a less polluting option to all the horses
that were around, and cars would have been seen as
a "cleaner" alternative to all the horse manure and flies
and other refuse around.

Hydrogen fuel cells would be a nicer alternative, but
what is the long term impact? We don't know. Nuclear
power is a nice alternative to coal and gas fired power
plants, but no one wants to put up with the risks of it
(or the spent fuel).

--Mike L.