Re: [Amc-list] My Two Cents on Hydrogen etc
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Re: [Amc-list] My Two Cents on Hydrogen etc
- From: Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 02:44:57 +0000
Your right bad information should not be spread...
Explain how getting hydrogen out of oil is better?
I allways thought the oil companies don't mind cause they know it is a dead end.
They are buying their brownie points...
--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrc II
" Chronic Pain Hurts"
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: David Crooks <david.crooks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> A few points:
>
> 1. Electrolysis is NOT the main method used to generate Hydrogen.
> It's a very inefficient method. The usual way of making it is by
> cracking oil, which is why the oil companies don't mind the thought of
> switching to Hydrogen.
>
> 2. It's no big secret that Hydrogen is not nearly as high an energy
> density fuel as gasoline, ethanol or diesel, (or bio-diesel).
> Hydrogens chief advantage is pollution reduction, it produces nothing
> but water vapor as an exhaust. Hydrogen is mostly about being
> cleaner, not about moving away from oil.
>
> 3. Ethanol and Bio-Diesel may be low emission fuels, but they are not
> zero emission fuels. Both create CO2, the so called greenhouse gas,
> and contribute to global warming.
>
> 4. Germany is making big strides in solar electric power, but at a big
> cost. Here in Ontario there is a similar program in effect.
> Electricity generated by solar power is sold to the grid at $0.42 per
> KWH. Compare that to what we pay for power ($0.059) and you see the
> reason for the growth, a 700% higher price....
>
> For the record, I'm not knocking anything that helps clean things up,
> but there's a lot of bad information being spread around, and that
> needs to stop.....
>
> Cheers, Dave
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