hydrogen fuel cell car

[Sinapus]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Nitrogen compounds? Fertalizer! Hydrogen cars emit water and fertalizer? We can plant crops in the median between the highway.

Well, Earth's atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, so if you use a regular air intake to mix in with the hydrogen in the combustion chamber some of it's going to combine with nitrogen.

Still useful, though.

[Wanderer]

I wasn't saying you could drink the water from gas powered cars tail pipe.

Pity. In space they use the hydrogen fuel cells to provide hot water! No tail-pipe on the I.S.S. I suppose...

[Sinapus]

Originally posted by dogscoff:
oh, 25% then. Still, it's better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick.

Microwave beams do sound cool, except that if the satellite slips out of it's geosynchronous orbit it could accidentally frazzle anything on the ground below it...

If the area the beam is sending the energy to is concentrated as well.

[capnq]

One of the costs of solar power that isn't usually mentioned is pollution from manufacturing all those solar panels. Making photovoltaic cells is a pretty nasty process, from what I've heard.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by capnq:
One of the costs of solar power that isn't usually mentioned is pollution from manufacturing all those solar panels. Making photovoltaic cells is a pretty nasty process, from what I've heard.

I heard that some people in Japan are putting solar cells on top of their houses. They have to buy them, maintain them, and they have to pay the local electric company more than the going rate for this electricity, and sell their surplus electricity back at less than the electric company's going rate.

This is mind boggling. Why do this? Prestiege? To benefit the rest of the neighborhood? To just insure they personally are never affected by a rolling blackout?

And if the Last one is true, is that a good enough reason for parts of the US to do the same?

Oh no, a chink in my capitalist armor. Quick someone plug it with a wad of 20's.

[ January 29, 2003, 22:44: Message edited by: Arkcon ]

[Puke]

dude, Japan could teach the course on capitalism. sure, they over extended their economy a bit by purchasing half of the developed world, but they're getting better. slowly.

and if making the little guy buy solar pannels in order to profit off of them isnt capitalism, im not sure what is. I just wish I'd thought of it (and been in the position to benefit from it) first!

[Puke]

Originally posted by capnq:
One of the costs of solar power that isn't usually mentioned is pollution from manufacturing all those solar panels. Making photovoltaic cells is a pretty nasty process, from what I've heard.

Of course, all the excessive industrial polution in the world will eventually reap disasterous results. Like giant lizards emerging from the waters off shore of Tokyo. You know, "Time shows us again and again, how nature points out the folly of man."

GO-GO-GODZILLA!