On 29/10/2010 11:35 PM, Hagar wrote:

"Sylvia Else"<sylvia@not.here.invalid>  wrote in message
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On 29/10/2010 10:37 PM, Dakota wrote:

On Fri 10/29/10 2:34, Sir Arthur C.B.E. Wholeflaffers A.S.A. wrote:

On Oct 28, 9:17 pm, "Brasscheck TV"<n...@brasschecktv.com>  wrote:

What makes a car go?

Piston action.

Do we really need to pump oil, murder countless
people in the process, refine it, transport it
all over the world, and poison the earth, sea and
air to make pistons move?

No we don't.

Cars can run on compressed air - right now.

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Where does the compressed air come from? Is it from pistons moving? Does
the energy to move those pistons come from fossil fuel? Is there such a
thing as a free lunch?

Sounds like it would fit in well with the "Hydrogen economy".

Sylvia.

And to date there is not an efficient process to extract Hydrogen
from water.  The best efforts come down to this: it takes two
gallons of fossil fuel to extract one gallon of Hydrogen.

Which was essentially the point I was making. People latch on to ideas like this, failing to realise that the reason a technology looks non-polluting is because only part of the cycle is being examined.

It wouldn't matter too much if the result was just that the person was deluding themselves. But they end up exerting political pressure (which unfortunately contains no energy), which causes suboptimal government decision making.

Sylvia.