He may be a fine engineer but predicting only a 5 year future for
hydrocarbon fuels and engines indicates he needs some remedial work in
sociology, psychology, political science and economics. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/31/2011 6:52 AM, Brian Swale wrote:
> Chuck wrote
>
>> If you can figure out a way to make solar cost significantly less than 10X
>> coal/oil/gas you'll have assured your future. Alternatively, figure out
>> how to economically store and retrieve the power for when the sun don't
>> shine. Even in Arizona it tends to be dark much of the time. :-)
>
> and Andrew wrote
>
>> It's simple really - use it to grow trees, let them decay into a swamp and
>> then wait a few million years until they turn black and hard. Then dig it
>> up and burn it. All power is solar power. You just have wait a bit longer
>> for some of it. Andrew Fildes
>
> There's a New Zealander scientist/engineer/inventor working at a Technical
> University in Lubbock Texas and in cahoots with some large American car
> makers, on ammonia generation, ammonia engines etc; ammonia being the
> only non-hydrocarbon chemical / fuel with the highest density of hydrogen
> per molecule. He is associated with their latest engine developments as
> well.
> He reckons that traditional hydrocarbon fuels and engines have only about 5
> years of serious future left ... or something like that.
> I don't remember his name, but I heard him interviewed on NZ National
> Radio last weekend.
>
> Apparently, ammonia generators are the best way to store surplus energy
> from wind farms for feeding back to the grid or for transport to other uses
> such as cars..
>
> He apparently has scads of processes patented.
>
> Why didn't I think of that??
>
> Brian Swale.
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