Just because an artist views his or her work of art complete only as a whole, other people may like only a small section of the work. Why should those people be force fed art just because the artist wants it that way?
Given the choice of buying an album to get one song versus not buying the album, I would simply not buy the album. I'd most likely try to find the song through other means. If, on the other hand I was able to buy just the one song for a reasonable price, I'd buy it without a second thought.
Although this Hydrogen boost is interesting, there is still a matter of the safe storage and distribution of hydrogen, as well as the trouble of getting pure hydrogen in the first place. Most of the processes of extracting hydrogen from other substances (i.e. water, natural gas, etc) take more energy to get the hydrogen than the hydrogen will release. At the present time I think our focus should be on a clean (not as clean as hydrogen of course) renewable fuel that requires no change in the existing fuel distribution and storage systems. That fuel is Biodiesel.
Here are a few reasons Biodiesel is a better immediate solution.
Biodiesel requires no diesel engine modifications to run
The fuel infrastructure exists now. No modifications needed.
Mass production is very feasible
No net carbon dioxide emissions (if made with ethanol)
Renewable
For every 1 unit of energy used to make biodiesel 2.3 units are gained
In a modern diesel engine (VW TDI for example) there are fewer toxic emissions than in a gas/electric hybrid (Toyota Prius for example).
For more info check out the fact sheets at biodiesel.org.
I wonder if something like domain name lookups could be geared towards the phone service. Somehow use spoken names, or nicknames, to dial from a stored (stored by some third party for a nominal fee) personal address book that was accessible from any phone just by dialing a certain number and then entering your unique id. After that you'd just speak the name, or nickname, of whom you wish to call, and then the computers do the messy work with the long numbers (like DNS servers do for internet addresses). Most phone companies are using simple speech recognition for the customer service lines now anyway, so it wouldn't be such a stretch to implement a system like this.
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Just because an artist views his or her work of art complete only as a whole, other people may like only a small section of the work. Why should those people be force fed art just because the artist wants it that way?
Given the choice of buying an album to get one song versus not buying the album, I would simply not buy the album. I'd most likely try to find the song through other means. If, on the other hand I was able to buy just the one song for a reasonable price, I'd buy it without a second thought.
Here are a few reasons Biodiesel is a better immediate solution.
- Biodiesel requires no diesel engine modifications to run
- The fuel infrastructure exists now. No modifications needed.
- Mass production is very feasible
- No net carbon dioxide emissions (if made with ethanol)
- Renewable
- For every 1 unit of energy used to make biodiesel 2.3 units are gained
- In a modern diesel engine (VW TDI for example) there are fewer toxic emissions than in a gas/electric hybrid (Toyota Prius for example).
For more info check out the fact sheets at biodiesel.org.I wonder if something like domain name lookups could be geared towards the phone service. Somehow use spoken names, or nicknames, to dial from a stored (stored by some third party for a nominal fee) personal address book that was accessible from any phone just by dialing a certain number and then entering your unique id. After that you'd just speak the name, or nickname, of whom you wish to call, and then the computers do the messy work with the long numbers (like DNS servers do for internet addresses). Most phone companies are using simple speech recognition for the customer service lines now anyway, so it wouldn't be such a stretch to implement a system like this.