Posted by Derek Broughton on August 3, 2005, 10:32 am
JoeSixPack wrote:
> Thanks for the help and all, but the ">>" or lack thereof is a function of
> your own reader, not mine. Nothing I can do about it.
Enough excuses. You're simply unwilling to stand behind your own words.
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derek
Posted by El Kabong on August 3, 2005, 3:04 pm
You guys need to have your "thingies" checked, ASAP.
Go back and re-read your posts... this has to be a new version of "Who's on
first?" (My sides are aching!)
El
> JoeSixPack wrote:
>> Thanks for the help and all, but the ">>" or lack thereof is a function
>> of
>> your own reader, not mine. Nothing I can do about it.
> Enough excuses. You're simply unwilling to stand behind your own words.
> <plonk>
> --
> derek
Posted by Nog on July 31, 2005, 10:04 am
>> Hydrogen was suggested as an alternative energy source by corporate
>> interests who were anxious to keep the public dependent on high
>> technology
>> (and therefore established industrial players).
>> The production, transport, storage and sale of hydrogen is dangerous and
>> difficult.
>>
>> In comparison, my own car that's standing outside as I type this will run
>> on
>> alcohol.
>>
>> The solution is alcohol, not hydrogen. It's easy to make, cheap, burns
>> clean, is safe to distribute and store.
>> It can be distilled from sewage, from crops, from surplus and
Make alcohol from sewage? Must be how they make Old Milwaukee beer.
waste
>> foodstuffs.
>> There's even the likelihood that new organisms that will in one stage
>> ferment to higher concentrations will be genetically engineered.
>> You can even run a fuel cell on it.
>>
>> _Alcohol_, not hydrogen.
> Face it, the days of blasting down the interstate, surrounded by 3 tonnes
> of metal, using 75,000 Watts of power (0 HP = 64,119,700 calories per
> hour) are over in the near future.
> Such an orgy of wasted energy was a wet dream that we were allowed to live
> out for a century or so.
> We might have to invest in solar and wind energy collection on a massive
> scale, and then either use it to distill biofuels or use it directly to
> create hydrogen fuel.
> Either way it won't be cheap. The fossil-fuel free ride will soon be over.
>
Posted by dances_with_barkadas on August 1, 2005, 10:30 am
> The fossil-fuel free ride will soon be over.
So you think that Americans will give up NASCAR before they give up,
say for example, science-literacy or numeracy?
Posted by barry on August 1, 2005, 1:41 pm
Can't speak for W & Co. Some already have given it up- actually some
never got it- the whole thing about boundless sequence of left turns in
obese billboards bouncing off stuff.
Of course, some make distinctions about "junk science" but what do they
know?
TTFN,
J
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> your own reader, not mine. Nothing I can do about it.