Reply #18: I'm especially enthused by the 7 kW Shatz system. [View All]

[NNadir]

That could light almost 70 one hundred light bulbs ignoring the enormous inefficiency of the 1.5 kW (enough to light 15 light bulbs) proton exchange system hydrogen making system.

I am so relieved that the greenhouse effect has been solved by the creative thinking of the folks at Humbolt University. And here we were thinking that this was a serious problem calling for serious thinking.

The Humbolt people are way ahead of the people in Maine, who are thinking about possibly demonstrating the possibility of maybe someday building a system that may demonstrate that possibly a system could be installed. (I'm sure that the failure to mention a capacity is just a demonstration that only small minded small thinking folks bother with trivial matters like numbers.)

By the way, you may want to eliminate this link: www.cleanair.org/Energy/Venki_Raman.pdf

It contains the word "nuclear," which everyone is afraid of, even people who have have dated women who once worked radioactive materials and spent weeks of panic cleaning up their hoods.

We all know that as long as there are nuclear plants on the planet, it is certain that everyone on the planet will die.

I happen to live in reasonable proximity to Air Products manufacturing plants. I often see the compressed hydrogen trucks running down I-95 at 70 mph tailgating people in Priuses. It always thrills me to think of it, since all trucks have a 100% of probability of crashing in highly populated areas at exactly the time of day when there is the maximal probability of killing the maximal number of people.

To be perfectly honest the hydrogen trucks scare the shit out of me, but I am comforted by the fact that if one of these trucks crashes and explodes, no one will give a shit. It won't even be a footnote filler on page 10.

People won't give a shit because they'll be too busy focusing on the possibility of realizing the tiny probability of the minuscule possibility of something with the word "nuclear" in it might happen somewhere someday even though it has not happened anywhere because those who claim to know the probability of the slightly possible events that have actually never occurred are scared shitless out of their tiny vanishingly small wits of what could be if what might happen conceivably was a possibility of occurring.