Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[Zeev Hed]

And, talking about long range plans fo energy. We are now talking about a "Hydrogen economy" (and of course, all those empty companies in the fuel cell business are running...), but can someone tell me, please, where does the energy come to create, or I should say, harvest that hydrogen. Sure, we have a little amount of hydrogen in normal gas and oil wells, but that is peanuts. The majority of hydrogen will come from hydrolysis of water, and as we all know, that process will take more energy than the energy we might get from thereafter burning that hydrogen (either directly or through a fuel cell). Unless we start to think fusion, cold fusion or safe nuclear (including disposing of nuclear wastes into the sun), we are nowhere from energy independence. One can also think of exploiting micro worm holes, inversion of matter to anti matter and subsequent reaction of matter with anti matter, but these, for now, are just science fiction....

Zeev