Thought I recalled reading something about this in Death From The Skies and sure enough, from over four years ago, Death from the Spirals! Maybe not so much. Given its age, I especially liked the punchline...
To be honest, I won’t be rushing to edit that chapter in my book just yet. This study looks good, but I’ll wait and see what other scientists say. With another few dozen million years to go, I have plenty of time.
There are several projects to convert gasoline to hydrogen, either at the point of sale, or in the vehicle itself. Of course efficiency suffers, but it does help remove the chicken or egg-like dilemma.
To use either methanol or gasoline on a PEM fuel cell vehicle, the fuel must be converted to hydrogen with an onboard fuel processor - every car would have to be equipped with essentially a high temperature mini-refinery or chemical factory to convert methanol or gasoline to hydrogen. This is an enormous challenge. Converting gasoline to hydrogen in a stationary plant operated steady-state 24 hours per day is feasible. But making hydrogen onboard a moving car to meet the full start-up and transient response of an automobile would be a complex task, with unknown cost and reliability implications.
The differences between stationary fuel processing (such as the H2Gen HGM) and onboard mobile fuel processing is summarized in the following chart, where green indicates superior performance, yellow is cautionary, and red indicates inferior performance.
Isn't this just typical. I heard about ActiveBuddy for the first time earlier this week and got all excited. They were the subject of a story on All Things Considered on NPR
and I was looking forward to trying out some of their stuff. Not anymore!
I'm surprised not to have seen the Mike Diana case mentioned in this discussion: http://www.cbldf.org/casefiles/diana.shtml
It involves censorship, obscenity, and in this case comic books instead of virtual reality. There are precedents already in the books to severely limit the First Amendment, and this is just one of many.
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Thought I recalled reading something about this in Death From The Skies and sure enough, from over four years ago, Death from the Spirals! Maybe not so much. Given its age, I especially liked the punchline...
Me too, even logged in to see if I had any mods. Alas, no one ever listens to poor Zathrus...
Reporting from the better-late-than-never dept., there's an article on the "I, Cringley" site that was gushing on HomePlug.
From this article
To use either methanol or gasoline on a PEM fuel cell vehicle, the fuel must be converted to hydrogen with an onboard fuel processor - every car would have to be equipped with essentially a high temperature mini-refinery or chemical factory to convert methanol or gasoline to hydrogen. This is an enormous challenge. Converting gasoline to hydrogen in a stationary plant operated steady-state 24 hours per day is feasible. But making hydrogen onboard a moving car to meet the full start-up and transient response of an automobile would be a complex task, with unknown cost and reliability implications. The differences between stationary fuel processing (such as the H2Gen HGM) and onboard mobile fuel processing is summarized in the following chart, where green indicates superior performance, yellow is cautionary, and red indicates inferior performance.Isn't this just typical. I heard about ActiveBuddy for the first time earlier this week and got all excited. They were the subject of a story on All Things Considered on NPR and I was looking forward to trying out some of their stuff. Not anymore!
I'm surprised not to have seen the Mike Diana case mentioned in this discussion: http://www.cbldf.org/casefiles/diana.shtml
It involves censorship, obscenity, and in this case comic books instead of virtual reality. There are precedents already in the books to severely limit the First Amendment, and this is just one of many.