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A Hydrogen-Based Economy
Glog writes "Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall of Wired magazine have written an amazing article explaining why we need to transition to a hydrogen economy. Lots of info there, estimated cost and benefit ... very good solid reasoning for whatever floats your boat - national security, environment, super-duper-charged automobiles."
I'm sure that Bush and everyone who actually matters will read this and say "Good golly this is a great idea! We should do it right away, oil companies be damned!"
I'm not cynical.
I want a car that pollutes only by emitting clean H20.
Just think. Drive for a mile, have a nice glass of water at the end of your ride.
Help me, I'm confuzzled!
This post is prezactly on-topic! Honest!
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A hydrogen-based economy would be awesome! If we could generate all our power from water ... we'd have an almost infinite supply! woo!
Except for that nasty using-up-all-the-oxygen thing ... ah well. I'm sure we can adapt. Nitrogen works, right? :)
It seems like it would be difficult to carry around little canisters of hydrogen to pay for everything.
I don't get it.
Forget the whales - save the babies.
My, now famous, Hydrogen Powered Jeep totally rocks! It is so nice to see the rest of the world catching up with me for a change!
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
Conspicuously missing from the article, where the hydrogen comes from.
It's easy. You see, at the same time we want the cars to get healthier, we also want the people in them to get healthier. So we switch from using hydrogenated vegetable oil in our frying, which frees up all that hydrogen so it can go into our cars instead!
Yup, in the future we will all have frying cars.
When the global energy system becomes dire - which it WILL, eventually, and sooner than you think - the hydrogen economy will take off, because if it doesn't the human race is quite literally doomed.
Is it just me, or does anyone else find it ironic that on the same page as this "How Hydrogen can Save America" article, there's a GIANT FUCKING AD FOR AN SUV
I think it's the human race's nature to destroy itself, hydrogen tech or no hydrogen tech.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
"This is Shadow Traffic with your morning commute. We're leaving the Garden State Parkway and heading over to Lakehurst. It seems we've got a pile-up with some of them new hydrogen cars. Oh my god! It's burning up. The flames and the fire and, oh the humanity!"
Obviously this article was bought and paid for by the global hydrogen cartels, in a conspiracy to suppress the true energy source of the future: pure, clean antimatter!
All we need is a $100 trillion/year subsidy to develop antimatter-resistant materials and technology for producing antimatter from medical waste and discarded athletic shoes.
A distribution network would not be necessary because your car could run for 75 BILLION miles on a single kilogram of antimatter, which has four billion times the energy density of gasoline and SIXTEEN BILLION times the energy density of chemical hydrogen.
Oh no they're breaking down the doKJY(W*#&^
What's with the fixation on minimalist atomic structures? Your puny electron and single proton are no match for my Plutonium based economy! Not only can I generate power so cheaply that it's not worth measuring, but can blow us both to bits if anybody messes with it!
Well, I guess a hydrogen based economy is better than an information based one. Just be prepared to pay the inventor of cheap, plentiful hydrogen the same or more than you're paying for oil, even if it is nearly zero cost to produce, if our experience with the info biz is any example to go by. If someone can get filthy rich off pc software, imagine what this future hydrogen baron is going to make off something we really need like personal transportation!
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Then we can take the "waste product" and sell it to Saudia Arabia.
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