Re: Viable hydrogen vehicle by 2010

From: Fred B. McGalliard (frederick.b.mcgalliard_at_boeing.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 14:28:17 GMT

"Paul Vader" <pv+usenet@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:10l3p1912ibs22a@news.supernews.com...
> "Fred B. McGalliard" <frederick.b.mcgalliard@boeing.com> writes:
> >Ton of coal. Requirement to power a remote bus in mid desert. Option 1,
Coal
>
> OK, you just met the "when you have no other choice" criteria.

Right. A niche market. But our overall market includes a lot of niche
markets. A really large amount of our food in Seattle comes from farms 1-200
miles away over the mountains. This is not a small niche. I don't have a
good idea of how big it is for the rest of the nation. I know LA has a huge
truck infrastructure drawing food from the farming regions that must average
1-200 miles. It would not be a trivial change to put all that into electric
rail with shorter say electric truck transport to and from the rail heads,
and I am nut sure it is possible or practical for the widely dispersed
farms. So I figure you must always have some of this niche to provide for
and that some may be quite a bit.

Would replacing crude oil with coal/nuclear/solar synthesis be more
contaminating? Not so sure. The oil is located in different places and
doesn't produce so much solid waste, but I am not so sure there is that much
overall difference. Yes coal is nasty stuff. So, unfortunately, is doing
without.

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