The law of conservation applies. The goal is to create a ‘fuel’ from something other than oil, and this is simply one way.

output will never equal or exceed input until a way is found to circumvent the laws of thermodynamics.

Ran on Hemp Oil. It was slow, but if you got stuck behind it… pretty soon you didn’t really care…. man.

But how about crops that grow FASTER then sugar cane, and can be grown in more locations….
HEMP and sunflowers make GREAT growers. But they WONT let us grow hemp. The by products are feed, cloth and Oils… We could get 3-6 growths of hemp in each year, and the Crop FEEDS the soil insted of TAKING nutrients out. And it can be grown ALMOSt anyplace in the US. we could cover moutains with it, and have crops that DONT take up Farm land.

Im sorry, but for ALL the old laws they WISH to protect, they REALLy make some stupid NEW ones.
the Gas companies were TOLD in the 70′s to find alternatives. Its 30 years later, and THEY WONT DO IT… they HAd to find a propritary system JUSt to give us Hydrogen…WHY?? It was proven that Hydrogen tanks are MORE protective then GAS tanks, and that the GAS goes STRIAGHT UP when released, and Hydrogen HAS to be mixed with AIR to explode…other wise it just Burns.

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Thanks and always a big fan of Dvorak,

Vlad Akilov
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Hydrogen is the most abundant gas on this planet…
1 reason the Germans HATED the US…We were making Helium, and THEY want it, but WE wouldnt give them any.

The only commercially viable source of energy on a scale to create enough hydrogen for US vehicle needs is nuclear. And if the French can do nuclear power safely and economically, we must at least be able to follow them. Effectively the technology to produce hydrogen from nuclear exists today.

The big problem with hydrogen is marketing. The ghosts of Hindenberg and Challenger are sure to follow hydrogen as a portable energy strorage medium. No matter that gasoline does the same thing – The first accident followed by explosive hydrogen conflagration with charred bodies will undo all the advertising anyone can buy. And like air crashes, every single one will make the evening news in color – or black and white soot if that is all that is left.

So don’t make hydrogen portable with the vehicle.

The big desirable here is an efficient, compact electric motor driven vehicle, driven by some safe energy storage medium. Right now, batteries seem to be the safest storage alternative and not anything that carries hydrogen.

I can wait for interchangable bodies and fly by wire. Right now, enegry that does not fund our enemies is the most important part. If the government wants to get us off the gasoline habit, then they can incent very low cost electric power to home rechargers and low cost urban recharging stations as an alternative. The demand for economical transportation would then drive rapid market delivery of electric vehicles ASAP.

The urban charging stations could be hydrogen powered with appropriate safegards (perhaps underground?) with remote nuclear power creating the hydrogen (government subsidized) and feeding it to existing (already underground) gas lines. similarly Hydrogen can also power local electric power generation – avoiding the losses of long range electric transmission lines.

This is not so different from what he have today, consumers can adjust if cost incentives are provicded and most important – it can be marketed.

What to do with the oil… hmm… how about not burning it, but make things out of it?

There are many ways to generate electricity that can be used to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. There are the traditional ways; nuclear, hydroelectric dams, wind power, solar power. And there are the relatively newer ways, such as wave and tide power. If there’s a will, there’s a way.