[PLUG-TALK] The Keith Effect - Lightbulb factories closing
Ronald Chmara
ron at Opus1.COM
Sat Oct 6 02:24:15 UTC 2007
On Oct 5, 2007, at 1:37 PM, Jeme A Brelin wrote:
> I've said it before and I'll say it again. You may speak of
> something as
> "fuelling" a process, but there is no such thing as fuel.
> Everything's a
> battery. You just have to figure out how it's charged
Good point....
> and what energy is
> lost in that process (and what processes are disrupted by diverting
> the
> energy to battery-charging).
> I mean, hydrogen and ethanol? Come on! They're both huge sinks.
> No net
> gain whatsoever.
Most modern fuels *are* batteries. Organic batteries that are charged
up the exact same way traditional biofuels (Oil, Coal) were charged
up between millions to 4.5 billions of years ago, by a massive
(1.9891 ×10^30 kg) fusion reactor that runs *primarily* on....
hydrogen fuel.
Of course, we only have about 500-700 million years left now to
harness this free energy, and find somewhere else to live (or adapt
to life without liquid water).
*shrug*
-Ronabop
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