02-04-2006, 05:01 AM
Jester,Feb 3 2006, 06:45 PM Wrote:My point was that there is no fuel which magically "gains" energy, or really even breaks even. Any fuel that we have to synthesize will, by definition, require more energy put in than we get out of it.Methane. Starts as sunlight, transitions as grass, processes as stuff in a cows stomach, enters the energy market as a bovine fart.
There is no free lunch. We will never find a fuel that gives us what we want, when we want it, for no net energy cost.-Jester
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All upside. Would I give you any downside? ;)
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In War, the outcome is never final. --Carl von Clausewitz--
Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum
John 11:35 - consider why.
In Memory of Pete