From: Dickey, Michael F (michael_f_dickey@groton.pfizer.com)
Date: Fri Jan 31 2003 - 10:42:55 MST
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From: Spudboy100@aol.com [mailto:Spudboy100@aol.com]
http://nationalreview.com/comment/comment-georgia013103.asp
<<The "hydrogen economy" has been promoted for years by environmental
activists and alternative-energy gurus like Amory Lovins. But hydrogen is
not a source of energy, something which hydrogen advocates either don't
understand or refuse to acknowledge. Since hydrogen does not exist in
geological reservoirs it must be extracted from fossil-fuel feedstocks or
water. The process of extracting hydrogen uses energy, which means that
using hydrogen is less efficient that burning fossil fuels. And if you're
worried about global warming you certainly don't want to go that route. As a
recent energy-technology review in Science magazine pointed out last
November, "Per unit of heat generated, more CO2 is produced by making H2
[hydrogen] from fossil fuel than by burning the fossil fuel directly." >>
Personally I was hoping that by saying we will be switching to a 'hydrogen
economy' to rely less on imported Oil and to reduce harmfull emission Bush
was very cleverly talking actually about switching a Nuclear based
electrical infrastructure. As this article points out, most people don't
know or care where you get the hydrogen from any more than they cared where
electric cars got the juice to charge their batteries. Nuclear is the only
way to do it cheap, effeciently, and without producing green house gases.
Michael Dickey
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