On 15 Mar 2003 at 21:37, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > --- Dan Minette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Fuel cells could very well be a good means of > > storing energy in the future; > > I don't know. I do know they are not a means of > > obtaining energy. > > > > Dan M. > > Actually, Dan, I'd be interested if you could go a bit > farther than this. I've been reading about a > hydrogen-based economy for years, and it's always > struck me as a bunch of people who have convinced > themselves that perpetual motion machines work if you > blow them up sufficiently large. It seems very odd. > Am I missing something? Since hydrogen is (as you > say) an energy transmission medium, not an existing > reservoir of stored energy (as petroleum is), a > hydrogen-based economy necessarily requires that > someone, somewhere, generate the energy that is > stored/transmitted in hydrogen. The ways that I can > think of to do this, are, well, the exact same ways we > generate energy right now. So what's going on here?
Higher efficientcy when used than petrol, for starters... Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
