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But you're mis-informed about trees 'litterally cleaning the air'. They merely convert CO2 to O2. [...]
This isn't about air quality anyway. This is about the mythical 'Global Warming' and and dependence on oil from the Middle East.
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Yes, converting CO2 to O2 is exactly what I meant by "cleaning the air"...and it's exactly what global warming alarmists are worried about.
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Do you think that the fed's would step in if the all-powerful and influencial California wanted to lower the age of consent to 12? Because a 12 year old girl with D-cups and a baby face should be legal, right?
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Where did she get D-cups? Someone call Chris Hansen...
I believe the federal government does sometimes step in on California's marijuana legalization (medical or recreational, I can't remember)...and they're not even pushing that one on other states.
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Since when is hydrogen not an energy source? Buy a small tank of hydrogen, open the valve and take a match to it....
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That's a
fuel, not an energy
source. The energy you're getting there is the energy that was used to produce the hydrogen through electrolysis, or the energy that was stored in methane before it was steam-reformed into hydrogen.
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No danger? I'm sure you remember hearing about the Hindenberg when is went up in flames.
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If I implied that hydrogen has no danger, I apologize. I was merely not too concerned about addressing that danger, because there were more fundamental issues regarding practicality of hydrogen that would need to be addressed before it became an issue.
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Can't be mined? Yes it can. From extraterrestrial sources where it occurs naturally as a liquid, or in hydrogen rich compounds that could later be refined on Earth.
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Good luck mining it from other planets. I don't have a starship and can't contribute to the effort. Well, my parents do have a Jefferson Starship album somewhere, but I don't think it will help.
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Isn't that the whole point????
The trick is to capture the Hydrogen in one tank and the CO2 in another.
CO2 is compressed, liquified, and sold just like Hydrogen, Helium, and Oxygen.
I'm at work right now... in a chemical plant... and we are using CO2 that was delivered via tanker truck yesterday.
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The "whole point" is to fuel cars. If you're going to use methane to fuel cars, why bother with all the effort and wasted energy of extracting H out of it when you could just feed it directly into the engine? As a bonus, it will require less technology development in the engine, since existing engines are almost right to run it the way they are, and it's probably less dangerous to carry around than H.