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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (5348)	2/26/2009 3:24:44 PM
From: Eric	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Respectfully Hawk, Hydrogen will not power our country. To make it wastes a lot of energy, to compress it wastes a lot of energy, to run it through a fuel cell wastes a lot of energy. Add up all those efficiencies and you have lost a TON of energy from the very beginning of the process. What I find elegant as a fuel is the byproducts of combustion, heat and water. I became enamored with the idea of it back in high school in the late 60's during the Apollo moon program. But as you know what happened with Apollo 13 hydrogen is nasty stuff to handle. Then in college while taking higher level chemistry classes my teachers "popped my bubble" and brought me back to earth. As Bob was trying to point out a few posts ago...when it's bound up with carbon it's energy density becomes much higher while subjected to normal 14.7PSI atmospheric pressure. I don't want to even think of the problems of trying to compress the gas in your backyard. LP and NG are completely different animals compared to H2! Solar PV, CSP could power our country over the next 20 years with existing storage methods. I've posted it before and I'll post it again, a very good scientifically reviewed article in Scientific American Magazine that came out in the December 2007 issue: A Solar Grand Plan sciam.com Before criticising the possibilities of Solar you need to read the entire article. It's written for the layman.