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Getting Serious About Fuel Cells
electroniceric writes "For those of us who moonlight as politics wonks as well as tech nerds, you may have noticed posts (1,2) in the Washington Monthly's blog pointing to interesting articles about the business community's new take on climate change, world oil supply predictions as well as a fascinating article about lower-cost ethanol together with a new fuel cell technology that can use impure hydrogen. Are we really about to turn a corner in global climate change response? Is this all vapor and breathless journalism about a world-saving new technology, or is it perhaps a brilliant investment strategy? Nobody knows (or claims to know) better than Slashdot..."
Haven't we heard that enough recently? It should be up for most abused expression of the year by now.
really about to turn a corner
Hey the GOP called they want their cliche back. They quit using the phase when the realized that they were holding the plot upside down.
What's taken everyone so long to realize the huge crisis in the oil supply? Everybody knows that at any given time, there's only a 40 years' supply of oil in the world. It's been that way for decades!
I propose that possession of carbon be banned.
KFG
He's right about the suburbanites, in fact I've got a way for the US to solve TWO of it's biggest problems:
We get all of the overweight people to cycle on generators and pump electricity back into the grid, which can then be used to make hydrogen for the skinny people to drive to work. When the skinny people get fat from lack of exercise, we let the (now skinny) hampsters drive to work.
Here's the math to prove it will work:
60 million obese Americans
30 pounds of fat on average overweight person
4 kiloWatt-hrs/pound of fat
= 7.2 billion kiloWatts!
Hoover dam only produces 2 billion kW at peak theoretical output. Ok so the math is probably flawed, but we'd still have a skinnier, cleaner US.
Since you seem to be one of those who like to go "it is neither A nor B, it is C", I would categorize you as neither part of the solution nor part of the problem. Instead, you are part of the smug.
Cheers,
e.