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

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

" From: 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.

ics were first developed for military work, where performance mattered
and financial payback didn't.  maybe what we need to do is make energy
independence a defense priority!  they'll grossly overpay for
development, but practical affordable alternative energy would
eventually filter down to the commercial sector.
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