Re: Ya gotta be yidding me!

Day Brown <daybrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> BurtonUrny@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>>  Btw, where does all
>> this hydrogen come from? How is it generated? How long and how many
>> billions would it take to convert all cars to hydrogen, build the
>> infrastrucure to get the hydrogen fuel to the stations and build
>> stations where a person could conveniently fill their "hydrogen
>> tank"? Why not use the money you'd use to develop hydrogen for cars
>> and develop light weight, large capacity batteries and build cars
>> that are totally electric powered? I have a few electrical outlets
>> in my home but can't find a single hydrogen outlet.
> The campaigns get so much media attention that innovations dont get
> the coverage, so you dont know there is a new hydrogen technology.
> Surf for it- it uses an aluminum alloy, which when exposed to water,
> gives off hydrogen. IIRC, one pound of alloy and 20gallons of water
> gets you 600 miles.
>
> That's better than gasoline. Appropriately enuf, from the U of Mich. I
> dunno, but if the Big Three funded that research, then they'll get the
> patents, and blow the jap cars off the road.

Just another pathetic little fantasy.

> Course, there's still the problem of where to get the electricity to
create the alloy in the first place

Yep.

> (which can be recharged by plugging it into an AC outlet in your
garage). The best bet I know of would be wind power.

Hopelessly uneconomic.

> There's a new wind turbine blade manufacturing plant going up in
> Little Rock. They can load the 61.5 meter long blades on barges to go
> up the Arkansas river to the high plains. Each turbine produces 5000kw.

They hardly ever produce anything like that.

> It'd take several thousand turbines to make a dent in foreign oil
im****ts,

It would take a hell of a lot more than that, because thats the peak thats
hardly ever seen in practice.

> but could be done.

Nope.