I'm sorry for being nostalgic, but haven't we heard about electricity being "too cheap to meter"?
robert luis rabello wrote: >Hakan Falk wrote: > > > >>I would agree with you, if it was higher R/P values for natural gas. >>With the >>current 7 years for US, the demands of independence of import becomes >>an >>even a more impossible dream. I do not have to describe the current US >> >>situation on NG again. Hydrogen from NG achieve nothing and the best >>bet is coal/nuclear at the end. It is already feverish activities in >>US to >>build >>a lot more nuclear power stations. >> >> > > No serious advocate of a hydrogen economy suggests that using a >single source of hydrogen production should be pursued. The people who >are pushing hard for hydrogen would like to see a diversity of >resources, ranging from reforming natural gas and coal, to >methanogenesis of garbage, pyrolysis of biomass, algal production AND >electrolysis in situations that favor it, whether this is nuclear, wind >or any of the options explained below. > > Using mass produced point focus solar collectors, whether stirling >or photovoltaic, WILL bring the price of electricity down low enough to >make hydrogen viable as an energy carrier. Some people believe that >concentrated photovoltaics will eventually bring the price of >electricity down to less than 1 cent per kilowatt hour, and IF this can >be attained, a kilogram of hydrogen would cost less than what a current >gallon of gasoline is running in the United States--even if it the >hydrogen was taxed at the same level that gasoline is taxed. > > http://www.mokindustries.com/pages/762107/index.htm > > http://www.industrialsolartech.com/rmt.html > > http://www.solarsystems.com.au/ > > > > > -- -- Martin Klingensmith http://infoarchive.net/ http://nnytech.net/ ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Special Sale: 50% off ReplayTV Easily record your favorite shows! CNet Ranked #1 over Tivo! http://us.click.yahoo.com/WUMW7B/85qGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
