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Tristan -> RE: State of the Union 06 (2/5/2006 8:54:03 AM)
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Getting back to the original post, ethanol for the first time seems like a viable energy alternative thanks to microbiology. It seeems to be an economically feasible alternative fuel in Brazil right now.
I never understood the use of hydrogen as an alternative fuel. It takes electricity to separate the hydrogen and oxygen atoms of water. So you burn coal to produce electricty to produce hydrogen, where's the fuel savings? I just don't see how this is an alternative unless you want a portable fuel and your only other choice is making coal oil from coal instead of hydrogen.
As for George's 2025 deadline for being off middle eastern petroluem, I don't think that will be too hard to meet as there might only be a few more decades of petroleum left at current pumping rates. We are certainly going to be off middle eastern oil by mid century whether we want to be or not. We just need to keep pumping at current pumping rates.
None of this renewable energy stuff is going to mean anything unless we get the world population to stabilize very very soon. Unfortunately, population control is not on the conservative agenda. It might not even be on the liberal agenda for that matter.
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