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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
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Subject: Re: perpetual motion(the suppression of liquid hydrogen, a clean fuel)
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> There is only ONE renewable energy resource on this planet:
> Solar Energy.

Actually, solar energy is not a renewable resource.  It's just that
when we run out, we probably won't be worried about other fuels. . . .

> If you take a large solar collector array, and plug the electrodes
> into the ocean, you get hydrogen and oxymorons.

Uh, I think you mean oxygen.

The efficiency rate of electrolysis is rather low (try it some time).
Someone was doing some research on alternative methods for breaking
water molecules (oddly enough, my memory says it had something to do
with chlorophyll).  I don't know if anything ever came of it.

There are plenty of ways to transfer energy from one point to another;
it's just that gasoline is still one of the most cost-effective (short
term anyway).
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