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To: wpckr who wrote (1833)	7/9/1999 1:03:00 AM
From: DoubleOddBuck	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 2513

It could actually improve national defense and foreign policy by reducing hydrocarbon usage. Imagine if America was self sufficent in power generation how that would affect Foreign Policy. If it was self sufficient 10 years ago I bet the Iraq war would not have happened, Kuwait invasion or not. Could have large polution free industrial fuel cells right now being fed Natural Gas for the Hydrogen conversion. Loads of Natural Gas in North America. Any residential house with Natural Gas could have micro cells just like a gas or oil furnace. Ok, maybe not every house but placed around towns and cities. One cell goes down the result will not be wide spread black out like happens today. You know how much energy gets wasted pushing the current through those huge cross country Transmission lines ? Very costly percentage, in 1991 it was 7.1% off all power production was lost in transmission es.epa.gov 8.5% loss stated in this link: greentie.org There is a Group of Japanese electrical engineers working on Super Conducting Transmission systems to reduce loss, but that would require complete reworking of the infrastructure with the new cables. Mucho Peso. Nuclear is expensive and dangerous. Oil is Dirty, Hydro destroys massive areas of land and river systems, Gas is fairly clean but still requires those power sapping cross country power lines. You could never do away with the transmission lines, but a reduced dependancy on them would help. I think small localized natural gas fed fuel cells would actually turn out to be pretty cost effective when you consider transmission loss across the network, and the network itself would be tighter, more stable. I read recent news articles where experts are concerned over how weak the present network is. Wide spread power disruptions are quite possible, especially in the heat wave going on right now. Toss in solar and wind and maybe we will be able to breath the air in the cities again. wouldn't that be nice. Sounds far fetched ? Maybe right now at this moment in time. But with a little politicial will it could happen. Oil lobby would bitch for a while, but increased natural gas usage will help keep them quite until a cost effective way of producing hydrogen comes along. My 2 cents.