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To: Krowbar who wrote (7190)	3/24/2003 10:34:55 AM
From: Casaubon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 8393

Hydrogen could be produced at the SuperGrid's power plants by electrolysis, and then transmitted through the energy pipeline to urban centers. Alternatively, hydrogen could be produced and stored in urban centers from excess electricity transmitted through the superconducting cables. the concept is seriously flawed. It offers no practical advantage to the already exsting oil infrastructure, yet requires a massive capital outlay. It does not make sense to use energy to convert to some ohter form of energy storage(ie hydrogen) and then utilize the energy from the newly stored energy form. It will end up burning more fossil fuel to make the conversions and then move the hydrogen around. I understand they are trying to "capture" some transmission losses via the supercooled conducting lines but, it makes more sense to simply generate hydrogen on site (ie stuart energy). For the hydrogen economy to work an alternative to fossil fuel must be employed. That means either solar, wind, geothermal, or safer nuclear, I'm afraid.