FWD with appropriate editing.
EW
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Weldon" <23.weldon@comcast.net>
To: "joseph lance" <jolylance@earthlink.net>; "drmayf" <drmayf@mayfco.com>;
"Wester Potter" <wester6935@comcast.net>
Cc: "list LSR" <land-speed@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2006 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: Car of your future?
> I firmly believe hydrogen has a great future as a motor fuel. But I favor
> the far more elegent way of transporting it by attaching it to carbon
atoms
> to create an easy to handle, measure, store and dispense liquid form we
know
> as alcohol. The non-poisonous form ethanol when made from plant
precursors,
> by the way, uses carbon atoms already in our atmosphere rather than from
> fossil sources. I'm betting on chemistry to find better and more
efficient
> ways of delivering hydrogen based fuels than as a compressed gas. I think
> any large scale commitment to the use of compressed hydrogen gas as a fuel
> for transportation or any other industrial/commercial energy conversion
will
> be an exercise in political folly. And I don't invest in folly or vote for
> fools.
> Ed Weldon
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