I want one...

[jdbubb at verizon.net (Dan Bubb)]

Canada is indeed fortunate that the majority of its energy needs are met by hydroelectricity. Over 50% which is a pretty amazing number.
Here in the States the percentage is much smaller, even less than nuclear, under 10%.
I suspect that Canada is the exception as far as the percentage of it's renewable energy usage.

In any event it doesn't invalidate David's comment that it takes energy to produce hydrogen in a form that can be used in an internal combustion engine.
So, before we all go googoo over hydrogen and how clean it burns, blah, blah, blah....let's look at the entire picture of the energy required to produce it (on a global basis).
my <.02
Dan

From: "Jean-Claude Desinor" <desinor@sympatico.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 12:20 AM


   You do not need to burn coal to get electricity ...
   Here we get it by turning turbines with water.

Jean-Claude

David Utley a ?crit :
> I have always wondered why manufacturers looked at burning Hydrogen, if 
> for no other reason that Hydrogen is not naturally occurring.  The only 
> way to get it is to electrify water, which means burning more coal...
> 
> Neat idea for the environment, just a bad idea for the environment....
> 
> David'
> 
> 
> PS--  Anyone smarter than me is encouraged to take me to school...
> 
> julie@menloparkrandd.com wrote:
> 
>> What a blast:
>> http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyid=2006-03-14T184722Z_01_L14736637_RTRUKOC_0_US-AUTOS-BMW-HYDROGEN.xml 


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