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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (416549)	6/19/2003 7:38:29 AM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Sealed is called a level 4 environmental lab. And creating than is super expensive and level 4 suits are not. Any leak or spill could be treated. If bioweapons contaminate some remote location, dis-infect the truck and move. In a remote location there are no civilians and nature will dis-infect itself. Life is cheap in Iraq and the death of some workers means nothing. Containing deadly chemicals or biotoxin in a sealed manufacturing process is 100 year old technology. Bio agent like anthrax exist in the soil in nature. Simple time will disinfect any leak. The need to be able to simply disinfect the lab quickly so it can be moved clean is the most important tactical requirement and an open area that can be hosed with reactive decontamination agents is the simplest and fastest way to accomplish that. If silane exposure to air will explode, why do you ship it to some remote location. It could leak in shipment and explode. Hydrogen is nasty and embrittles metals as it is so small it penetrates and reacts within. Special alloys are required for long term storage at high pressure. The problem with hydrogen is there is no good way to store the equivalent energy of 10 gallons of gas. But my scuba tank analysis is still good. Tanks are cheap. They can be use at a de-rated pressure and used for some time and be discarded. And the overall conversion losses of from whatever energy source make hydrogen BTU's several times as expensive as CHn based fuels. And now it's projected that H2 chemistry from industrial scale use would greatly damage the ozone layer. The only fuel that makes sense would use hydrogen and carbon. And a carbon only fuel if possible would likely give amazing yields of cheap energy. H2 is just plain dumb for many reason.