Bush's call for "more diesel"

My crystal ball says we are heading toward a society based on energy
produced from the process of fusion. IMO, it is the best hope of man to
provide cheap, clean and limitless energy. It won't be here soon but if
we can keep things from going to hell for another 200-300 years we might
make it.

Spike wrote:
> They said the same thing about desalinization. I like trees but I'm in
> no way a tree hugger. There needs to be balance. But with
> desalinization they found that while it costs more to take the salt
> out, the resulting fresh water reaching arid lands produces great crop
> yields in areas previously non-productive. Yet some "nitwit" promoted
> the idea. Look back through history at all the nitwit ideas that
> turned out to be major advances. Using dino products beat the heck out
> of steam, and led to other advances. Who knows where something like
> hydrogen fueling might lead? My tea leaves are on the fritz right now,
> so I don't know what will come along tomorrow.
>
> On Sun, 08 May 2005 14:48:33 -0400, RichA > wrote:
>
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>>On 7 May 2005 20:03:50 -0700, "Kruse" > wrote:
>>
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>>>66 6F HCS wrote:
>>>
>>>>There's a local guy here in Denver who converts engines to run on the
>>>
>>>used
>>>
>>>>oil from the fryers at McDonald's, Burger King, et al. The exhaust
>>>
>>>smells
>>>
>>>>like whatever was fried in the oil. Fries, chicken, fish, whatever.
>>>
>>>lol.
>>>
>>>>--
>>>
>>>With very few emissions, I may add.
>>>
>>>Actually, it's not that hard. After that french fry (FF) oil gets to
>>>~170 degrees, the diesel engine will burn it like the regular stuff.
>>>Most of those cars just have two fuel tanks, a small one with regular
>>>diesel and a larger tank with the FF oil. Start the car on regular
>>>diesel, heat up the FF oil with the engine heat and then just switch
>>>the fuel over. Most of these cars are a novelty though. Can you imagine
>>>taking a cross country trip without knowing where to stop to get your
>>>fuel?
>>
>>And that's the point; Nitwits jump at any crack-pop idea without a
>>thought at to it's true viability. IF they took the refuse from
>>every restaurant in a city and converted it, it "might" become a
>>viable and widely available fuel source. But then I'd have to know
>>the volumes to make any kind of reasonable assumption about it.
>>As it is, it makes about as much sense as "hydrogen fueling" which
>>costs MORE in conventional energy to make than any reduction in
>>emissions it achieves.
>>-Rich
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