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  1. Re:FYI on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    saying fabricated is unfair I don't know if ancel keys fabricated data, and for that i apologise, however I belive he was highly selective in his choice of data sources

  2. Re:FYI on Omnidirectional Treadmill: The Ultimate FPS Input Device? · · Score: 1

    it depends what sort of diet advice you follow if you follow the ancel keys diet, based on fabricated and highly selective data that the world has followed since the seventies then the comment would see WTF if however you follow a paleo diet or prefer a diet based on actual scientific research that apples to all animals not just humans see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KH9079LV4tY then the comment is entirely fair

  3. Re:Not a replacement yet on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    a more truthful statement of that would be: " Warren Buffet doesn't need to follow the flow. He makes changes, the rest of the USA follows" Actually the switch to LPG started in Europe years ago around a third of fuel stations supply LPG it just the USA that is behind everyone else

  4. Re:Fuel cells on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    can i just say the whole 220v vs 110v is really weird here in europe where everyone uses 230V for everything. I assume that in europe our high power electric charge points would be 415V 3 phase. Since that's supplied to every house consumer unit - where typically 1 phase at 230V for distribution into the house. I don't know what the maximum ampage that can be supplied but a typical sub-station supplies 200 houses.

  5. Zhang is not proposing to make and store the hydrogen according to the article at virginia tech the enzyme series cracks the cellulose to hydrogen and co2 the hydrogen being used immediatly in the fuel cell

  6. Re:Better or Worse than Ethanol? on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    sadly this is not a Mr fusion device but great ref thanks for making me laugh i'm the anymous coward you replied to

  7. Re:Was this from April 1? on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    LOL hell even fuzing it is hard enough

  8. nope it isn't check the sources their both about making cheap hydrogen but the one you reference is from the University of Calgary whilst Zhang is at virginia Tech both solutions are very exciting - a french company is building a enzyme production plant in virginia - so the enzymes could well be on stream with 3 years.

  9. Re:Discovered near perfect energy source on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    the three years refres to a pilot plant being built in virgina but a french biotech company

  10. Re:HYPE!!! They left something VERY important out. on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    If you look at the article by zhang at virginia tech and in his 2009 paper he is proposing to use a cascade of enzymes. AFAIK he has managed to go from a pure cellulose feedstock to hydrogen not just from Xylose. according to the virgina tech article a french company is building a pilot plant to manufacture the enzymes, the issue here as ever is what can be done in a lab doesn't necessarily scale to industrial production hence the pilot plant

  11. Re:What happens to the Carbon on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    if you read the origonal article at virginia tech Zhang explained that the cellulose broken down by a series of enzymes, releasing CO2 as a by product on route

  12. Re:what happens to the remaining carbon? on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    if you read the origonal article from virginia tech you would know that breakdown, by the enzyme series, of the cellulose is into hydrogen and CO2 which is then released (and yes its a greehouse gas) whilist the hydrogen would be piped to a fuel cell

  13. Re:Not a replacement yet on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    that is not the mechanism that is being developed by Dr Zhang, his methord uses a series of enzymes that breakdown a cellulose feedstock to form hydrogen - this happens at low temperature and normal pressure.

  14. Re:Not a replacement yet on Big Advance In Hydrogen Production Could Change Alternative Energy Landscape · · Score: 1

    It does work in cars - because the hydrogen is not stored but used directly in a fuel cell The OP did not print the full article by Virginia Tech - Dr Zhang mechanism is to use exymes to convert a feedstock to hydrogen and CO2. The enzymes would produce hydrogen in respose to the feedstock (presumably a starch and water mix) supplied from a tank that you would fill at refilling station. The hydrogen would then be piped to the fuel cell that would make electricity which would either go to a battery or woul be used to power the vehicle