Re: [Amc-list] Hydrogen Power (was Holley Carb Questions .... )

[Tom Jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

Andrew wrote:

> > research is only just beginning on fuel crops.  more is needed.  and
> > the issue of competition for food acreage could indeed be a serious
> > problem.

That's a good point. Of course transnational oil companies are required by law 
and their stockholders (and greedy top management) to not only make profit 
continuously, but growth in profit quarter by quarter. There's no room in 
there for costly 20-year-plans to develop systems that would either put them 
out of business or be useful only when they're dead from "natural causes". 
Likely it would cause huge social upheavals too, eg. we wouldn't be driving 
individual fossil fueled cars (ouch). 

It's too bad, as we've demonstrated an ability to develop tremendously subtle 
and powerful stuff, like silicon and software, but only when it also produces 
a continuous stream of treats. If there was a 20 year gap between the 
invention of the transistor to the integrated circuit, say, chances are no 
one would have done it. Clearly it would still have been a huge boon.
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