I want one...

[julie at menloparkrandd.com (julie@menloparkrandd.com)]

I agree. It is expencive to make hydrogen, but even more so the stupid idea of running ethanol from soy/corn.
The math for the ethanol is remarkable. How many miles does an average car get from one acre of soy/corn? How much energy does it take to generate that fuel?
But I did like the acceration of the BMW :)

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Dan Bubb [mailto:jdbubb@verizon.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 15, 2006 08:08 AM
>To: desinor@sympatico.ca, 'David Utley'
>Cc: 'Org, Scirocco'
>Subject: Re: I want one...
>
>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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