Re: What gives?

From: TCS (The-Central-Scrutinizer_at_p.o.b.o.x.com)
Date: 03/09/05


Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:58:13 -0600

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:58:43 -0500, Ron Herfurth <rgh2z@virginia.edu> wrote:

>"Bobster ." <bobster37@webtv.net> wrote in message
>news:27000-422E7784-191@storefull-3251.bay.webtv.net...
>> Wake up, guys, the beauty of hydrogen isn't with the big centralized
>> power cos, but it can be made by the individual byb using solar or wind
>> forb power to be used in eectrolyzing it from plain old tap watter. No
>> petroleum products required. It can then be used for most things that
>> petroleum is now used for. Generated by the homeowner, the cost equation
>> is meaningless because he obviously doesn't want to use any petroleum
>> products This will all become quite obvious as the idea of the homeowner
>> making his own energy spreads.
>>

>But it would be far less expensive to store the electricity in golf cart
>batteries.

>And the beauty of hydrogen has always been to replace petroleum in cars, not
>stationary power systems that can get juice from coal. The ugly part is that
>it's probably cheaper to run cars on rechargeable batteries using grid juice
>than on hydrogen; even if the hydrogen came from free electricity.

And rubber bands can be used to levite, just hook one end to your boots and
pull. Beats messing around with that hydrogen and discovering that you've
spend $100,000 on solar cells and electroysis equipment not to have enough
power to get your car to the end of the driveway more than once a week.



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