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The (Possible) Future of Alternative Energy
Sponge! writes: "The stuff that turns oil into margarine. The stuff that made the Hindenburg float. The stuff that combines with oxygen to make water and with carbon to make methane. The stuff that sends the space shuttle skyward and could someday power your car, office building, house, cell phone, even your hearing aid. That "Stuff" is hydrogen, and according to Amory Lovins, it is the future of energy. Here is an interesting article on Lovins and his view of hydrogen as the number one fuel."
hmm, all the #distributed people can check in here then... cheers switched :)
Sponge!
Please Troll this down. I am sorry, I had to vote in NYC today and needed to take off the edge...
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
Now that patriotism and American indentity is surging it seems like a right time for a political leader to stand up and proclaim energy independence is a paramount issue.
Addiction to cheap fossils fuels has colored our foriegn policy and caused us to turn a blind eye to the principles we hold dear, such as fairness, justice, and the trust in democratic idealogy.
The US bolsters, sells arms to, and keeps autocratic governments in place, such as Saudi Arabia, only so the we can get access to cheap energy. Even though these governments routinely violate basic human rights, disallow freedom of speech and rule by fear.
The parallel between a drug addict who abandons moral principles in order to obtain their next fix is almost too much to ignore.
We need someone in polical power who has the vision and the foresight to achieve energy independance and instill a yankee-can-do attitude, no unlike JFK's "go to the moon" proclaimation.
The current war will cost between $150 and $200 Billion not counting the increase in inefficiencies of trying to protect ourselves and our lost freedoms. How far down the road would $200 billion spent on research and development of an energy economy built on solar, wind, commercial fusion, spaced based technologies, conservation, etc. get us? How would this positively effect the economy and allow us to compete in the world?
I agree. Bin Laden wants us out of the middle east. I say we give him his wish. Let's pull out and take our money with us and invest it in a renewable energy source. Hell, even if we could buy oil from someone else, we at least won't have to deal with the fanaticism.
The stuff that blows up and makes more fodder for rotten.com.
If Nalgene water bottles are outlawed, only outlaws will have Nalgene water bottles.
lets see to make hydrogen you need ahhh, could it be electricity? ___ You Burn the Coal to get the Electricty to get the Hydrogen to Put in the car. Oil baby the stuff just comes out of the ground like majic, you burn it and get CO2, and that feeds the rainforests
Hey, did you know that some power plants actually use Uranium or sunlight or water or wind rather than coal and oil? It's amazing! Oh, and did you know that there are almost no power plants on the grid that go around on wheels? And that they are therefore 10 zillion times as efficient as the portable variety in your car? Who'd have thought?!? Anyone who put more than 2 seconds thought into it, that's who.
Dyolf Knip
At least your not from the US. Redmond is in Washington State, and is around 4500km from the city of Washingon DC. I don't think anyone has an atomic bomb that could take out that.
Boy, last I heard, Redmond was IN Washington