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[Odograph.com] A case in point is the so-called “hydrogen economy.” This seductive concept idealizes clean power, a virtuous cycle of hydrogen from water, energy from hydrogen, and clean water as the only byproduct. Unfortunately, hydrogen is too expensive to become a useful fuel in our modern world.

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http://peakoil.blogspot.com [Peak Oil News] End of the Age of Oil - Part Two: The Substitute: Many European scientists looked for waste biomass to produce burning gas. Although some European farmers as well as poor Chinese families use some sort of biomass tanks to produce enough gas for their own consumption, the process is not very practical on a large scale. The process of collecting the unsanitary biomass, processing it, and getting rid of its waste poses a health problem. Besides, the amount of produced biomass would not be efficient to generate electricity for metropolitan consumption.

http://penndit.blogspot.com [Penndit] C&J: Jeers to GOP Government Waste: Keep up the pressure folks! What YOU Can do TODAY to Protect Social Security It's slightly out of date, because Bush has come out with this "progressive" indexing scheme. In any case, just write that the progressive indexing is a euphemism for major cuts in benefits and use some of the talking points from the link...and presto! I'd also mention maybe saying that there's no reason for anyone to trust Bush on Social Security...

Treehuggerhttp://www.treehugger.com [Treehugger] Microbial Fuel Cell: Engadget says it "turns poo to power"- a microbial fuel cell (BioElectrochemically-Assisted Microbial Reactor or BEAMR) that was originally developed to clean wastewater, and "demonstrates that there is real potential to capture hydrogen for fuel from renewable sources (like from human, industrial and agricultural waste) for clean transportation". It seems almost too good to be true: produce hydrogen from waste with one tenth the electricity of electrolysis, end up with clean water as the byproduct.

Climateark.orghttp://www.climateark.org [Climateark.org] 20/12/2004 -- Road to hydrogen cars may not be so clean: And even though optimists say hydrogen will be generated via electrolysis without producing greenhouse gases, the reality is that the oil companies are gearing up to generate it from methane -- and the most famous greenhouse gas, carbon dioxide, forms as an unintended byproduct of the methane-treatment process.

Scienceblog.comhttp://www.scienceblog.com [Scienceblog.com] Science Blog -- Common algae can be valuable source of hydrogen fuel: Berkeley -- A metabolic switch that triggers algae to turn sunlight into large quantities of hydrogen gas, a valuable fuel, is the subject of a new discovery to be presented by University of California, Berkeley, scientists and their Colorado colleagues during a Feb. 21 press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C.

Scienceblog.comhttp://www.scienceblog.com [Scienceblog.com] Science Blog -- 01.27.00 - Patent filed on energy discovery: UC ...: BERKELEY-- A metabolic switch that triggers algae to turn sunlight into large quantities of hydrogen gas, a valuable fuel, is the subject of a new discovery reported for the first time by University of California, Berkeley, scientists and their Colorado colleagues. The news appears in this month's issue of the journal "Plant Physiology."

[Tyler.blogware.com] Clean Break :: Main Page: -- This is actually a news story, not a column. It's about plans by Canadian Pacific railways to buy 35 battery-hybrid yard engines called the Green Goat. It's a very progressive move by one of the largest railways in the world, and a railway known for its scrutiny of new technologies. The company behind the Green Goat, B.C.

http://peakoil.blogspot.com [Peakoil.blogspot.com] Peak Oil News: Domestic demand is so strong, and Iran’s oil production is so far past its peak that by 2008-2011 (see above), it will likely cease to have any exportable surplus of oil, and will become an importer country. For Iran, other than the siren call to develop nuclear power -- opening the way for nuclear arms and a sure footing for standing firm against the USA and Israel -- the real and effective solution will be to develop gas-to-oil conversion (GTO), enabling Iran to produce synthetic oil from its immense gas resources. Tehran regime change, a favoured call by toothsome Condoleezza Rice, will not in any way favor rapid development of GTO -- further accelerating Iran’s demise as an oil exporter.

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