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redneckgaijinWell, back from Louisianime... stayed at a crappy Motel 6, had to be towed home when the Exploder's fuel pump died Sunday morning, not much fun at the show itself.
And today, while I work on catching up and getting everything square for A-Kon in three weeks... I notice this little tidbit buried, buried, buried among the news blogs I read.
Obama cuts funding for hydrogen research, boosts it for biofuels.
Now, Obama's always been a booster of corn-based ethanol- the alternative fuel that's nearly doubled food costs in the past decade, that's created a fertilizer-driven dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico bigger than Massachusetts, that uses more carbon to produce than is recovered through photosynthesis, which is less efficient than gasoline, and which slowly destroys the engine of any car that uses it.
Hydrogen, on the other hand, produces only as much carbon emissions as it requires to electrolyze the water to make it- so, anything from a dirty coal plant down to 100%-green solar panels. Recent technology have made fueling hydrogen cars safe, with impact-resistant tanks and locking fuel hoses that can fill a tank in under 20 minutes. Hydrogen even has the potential to be a more efficient energy storage system than gasoline itself.
But Obama has declared that it can't be deployed for use in vehicles anytime soon, and thus it fails.
That's not recognizing a failed technology; that's deliberately picking the winners and losers.
Illinois and Iowa corn farmers win; the rest of America loses.
Wrong move, Obama.
And today, while I work on catching up and getting everything square for A-Kon in three weeks... I notice this little tidbit buried, buried, buried among the news blogs I read.
Obama cuts funding for hydrogen research, boosts it for biofuels.
Now, Obama's always been a booster of corn-based ethanol- the alternative fuel that's nearly doubled food costs in the past decade, that's created a fertilizer-driven dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico bigger than Massachusetts, that uses more carbon to produce than is recovered through photosynthesis, which is less efficient than gasoline, and which slowly destroys the engine of any car that uses it.
Hydrogen, on the other hand, produces only as much carbon emissions as it requires to electrolyze the water to make it- so, anything from a dirty coal plant down to 100%-green solar panels. Recent technology have made fueling hydrogen cars safe, with impact-resistant tanks and locking fuel hoses that can fill a tank in under 20 minutes. Hydrogen even has the potential to be a more efficient energy storage system than gasoline itself.
But Obama has declared that it can't be deployed for use in vehicles anytime soon, and thus it fails.
That's not recognizing a failed technology; that's deliberately picking the winners and losers.
Illinois and Iowa corn farmers win; the rest of America loses.
Wrong move, Obama.
