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 > _______________________________________________ > Amc-list mailing list > Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx > http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list _______________________________________________ Amc-list mailing list Amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://splatter.wps.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/amc-list