Re: Does Mesofuel mean less greenhouse gases?

From: Bob Eldred (nsmontassoc_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 12/03/04 

Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:12:51 -0800

"Sachin Kailaje" <skailaje@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:ed8ed9c7.0412022049.714951e6@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> I was reading up on Mesofuel, the hydrogen economy company at
> http://mesofuel.com/tech/index.asp
>
> I quote from their web-site:
> "Hydrogen has been produced from all of the fossil fuels currently
> available and certain fossil fuels that have a high hydrogen to carbon
> ratio make them primary candidates for the reforming process. The
> reforming process, as one example, is hydrogen production from natural
> gas from a process known as "steam reforming". The steam reforming
> process breaks the natural gas into hydrogen,
> <emphasis-added-by-me>carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide
> </emphasis-added-by-me> by exposing it to high temperature steam.
> MesoFuel utilizes proprietary processes for steam reforming and
> subsequent separation of hydrogen from the other byproducts."
>
> -- END OF QUOTE --
>
> What is not clear to me here is : "What happens to the by-products:
> carbon-dioxide & carbon monoxide after the steam reforming process? Is
> it released into the atmosphere?"
>
> If the answer to that last question is "Yes", then it seems to me (from
> a global warming perspective) that all that the "steam reforming"
> process achieves is to displace the blame for green-house gases FROM
> the automotive fuel emissions TO the automotive fuel generation process
> (Mesofuel Hydrogen Generator process)?
>
> Is it really an eco-friendly alternative, then?
> Regards,
> Sachin Kailaje

Bingo! You've figured out part of the hydrogen scam. The Caleeefornia
govenator Ahhnald is a hydrogen buff because he knows that the hydrogen will
be produced in Houston and therefore the polution will be someone elses
problem but Caleeefornia will be able to claim clean hydrogen use.
Caleeefornia already does this with coal generated electricity produced 400
miles away from Caleeefornia. The resulting polution is also someone elses
problem.
Bob