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Originally Posted by philanderer
My anger stems from one commercial in particular...the BP commercial where the narrator states proudly that BP is spending 1.5 billion dollars in researching and developing "new" forms of fuel (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells, etc.).
How does the public not rise as one and have this ad pulled from the air.
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Hey, it's even worse than you think. Hydrogen is NOT a viable energy generation medium. Gasoline is because we get more energy out of gasoline than we put into making it. Hydrogen is just the opposite. When you add up all the energy we use in order to extract the hydrogen (from methane - this is important, more later) and then store it, it turns out to use more energy to do all that than we get out of the hydrogen when we use it in a car.
Now, why is the methane part important? Well, we need to understand where methane comes from (no, not there). Methane is found in oil wells. And in fact, especially after the oil well has been pumped for awhile and has less oil in it, it's easier to get the methane out than it is to get the oil out. And since methane brings more money in than oil does, it's a win-win situation for the oil companies. Not only do they get credit for being "environmentalists" but they also get the promise of reaping gargantuan profits (again) at the expense of the environment (again) and the consumer (again).