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KB2VXA > FUEL 16.01.10 17:03l 58 Lines 2787 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
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Subj: Re: VK2AAB > Hydrogen bus
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Hi Barry and all,
Just to get it out of the way first, since Bob and I use the same BBS and
check it daily we tend to bat it back and forth especially when we're on
at the same time. (;->)
So it would seem the UK trials center around fuel cells which in this
application are problematical. Well no wonder, the power demand is
enormous compared to their "normal" usage, most famously in space. It
makes me wonder why not plain old electric busses if they don't want to
lay tracks for trams and generate power at the oil refineries using all
that gas they produce. We do it here and probably other countries as
well, cogeneration reduces operating costs and they sell the excess power
too.
Ten times the number of petrol tankers in hydrogen on the roads isn't
hard to imagine as there aren't that many petrol tankers to begin with.
Besides, liquified gasses are shipped all the time, perhaps you don't
recognize the bottles when you see them and one thing I'm sure of, the
average person wouldn't recognize a nuclear flask if it fell on him.
Seriously, people are all scared over nothing simply because of
sensationalist journalism in the press, one crashed and burning petrol
tanker is all it takes but what they don't tell you is it's only one out
of many thousands that made it safely and one out of hundreds that
crashed and ammounted to nothing more than some wrinkled metal.
Yeah, the CNG people "need" to get their investment back quickly. Where
have I heard THAT one before? Sounds like a loud chorus of many voices to
me, they all want to turn a quick and greedy buck and to hell with the
future. Remember the tortoise and the hare? 'Nuff said.
What do you mean "the way out stuff doesn't get published here"? If it
didn't I wouldn't get such a laugh out of The Australian and a few others
but then the letters to the editor tell another story. When it comes to
people like Al Hore and Penny Always Wong you guys aren't fooled one bit
and that's where the chuckles come from, New Zealanders may do strange
things with sheep but greenies and their political backers do even
stranger things with the wool.
Hey, if you have a tight supply of oil maybe we can give you some of our
surplus. We're swimming in the stuff and closed several refineries but
funny how the price of fuel just keeps going up. A clouded issue you bet,
must be a cloud of CO2 or maybe that "transparency" Obama keeps yapping
about but so far I've seen neither... POP.
I leave you with this to ponder, was that the sound of a bubble bursting
or me pulling my tongue out of my cheek?
73 de Warren
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Message timed by NIST: 14:08 on 2010-Jan-16 GMT
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