I stand by what I said. This is a fossil fuel using device that emits CO2. IF you are 'concerned' about AGW, this is NOT the device you want to hang your hat on.
If it burns hydrogen it does not emit CO2. No one is hanging anything on any ONE technology or device. Only you are making such a charge.
Who cares about AGW arguments? You clearly are obsessed with this subject. There are other more important issues to me that effect us right now. Do you really want to continue to use fuels that pollute the air and water, that cause us to go to war, that make us support dictatorships, that make us vulnerable to price shocks from foreign suppliers? AGW is the least of my concerns.
Further, there are NO figures on ROI for this device which might (might!) reach $3,000 in a few years. You don't know if it is five years or 30. You don't know the maintenence needed. There are no figures for how efficient this method is.
That is correct. And neither do you. So why get all upset over it? I'm sure the people at eBay, Google, FedEx, Walmart an
d Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers are complete morons who have never heard of ROI and costs of new technologies never come down. And I'm sure a charattan can easily fool all of these companies which are all utter failures.
And if you STILL NEED FOSSIL FUELS you haven't fixed anything. If it IS more efficient then you have simply prolonged the problem, not solved it. This is not a 'zero point' energy device. Whether your an AGW alarmist or not, SUPPLY is the real issue here.
When did anyone ever expect to completely eliminate the use of fossil fuels overnight? Fossil fuels will be with us for a long time. And I don't underestimate our ability to get at it. Every year it seems people are discovering new oil deposits. There is plenty of supply. We have numerous permits for oil drilling that have not even been started.
Why would you need to completely eliminate it to fix anything? You are making up arguments that few people who are realistically trying to achieve in the near future are saying. We don't need to completely get rid of anything. We just need to substantially curb its use even if this is done through efficiency instead of outright banning.
It's like trying to get rid of pollution in LA from cars. Ain't going to happen. But what has happened over the last 30 years is that cars are cleaner burning and more efficient. In addition, the gasoline also burns cleaner. What difference has this made? I can tell you that I can see the mountains from my living room. This wasn't possible in the 80s when smog could cause visibility to be reduce to about half a mile. It was disgusting. Yet this all happened while the number of cars has multiplied along with the population. The air is cleaner. If we were waiting for our all electric vehicles that can go 500 miles and costs $15,000 then nothing would have gotten better. You can wait all you want for a zero-point energy device but that is just unrealistic and accomplishes absolutely NOTHING.
If you want to get away from fossil fuels for the home, go solar.
I would love to say that this is true but this is also unrealistic for a lot of people. The sun doesn't always shine. You need a large roof or backyard to install it. Some neighborhoods forbid it. I won't work for people near the Arctic circles that get little or no light for months at a time. Solar panels are still very inefficient.
Fortunately, and unfortunately, China's sudden jump into the leadership position of solar panels has reduced the price by half for many markets. They're kicking our butts but for consumers it's great. Hopefully, your local utility company or state will give you nice rebates for installing it.
Ideally I would like to see as a good solution a solar panel that gets better than 50% efficiency and affordable. This would be used to create hydrogen and oxgen and have the hydrogen stored in some high density tank that is no bigger than a frig. This tank will then power a fuel cell to provide electricity and heating with only water as a by product. Currently the latter two don't exist but there are many smart people working on it. I'm hoping that this new fuel cell company may be solving the first part of the equation.
I would also love to see all the high rise buildings use thin film solar on every window so office buildings could become power plants instead of being polluters. It's possible but just too expensive at this moment. Also the construction industry is rather slow at adopting new tech.
There is a great discussion of this device on slashdot with over 500 replies:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.../02/22/1915250
Using another discussion board to discuss your points? Really now. You're losing your touch.