Rant 1

Someone recently wrote in a newsgroup that I subscribe to:
"Eventually, we will find a cost-effective way to harness massive amounts of cheap energy from the sun, and only then will hydrogen be the fuel of choice for everyday travel."

Well, I snapped:

Hell, I'll get the ball rolling. Cost effective is only a figment of the mind in this country. Ban asphalt shingles, federal law. Put caps on solar shingle prices. And don't start whining about it. We pay farmers to pour milk and butter down the drain every year. As a matter of fact, pay the farmers to put PV on fallow fields instead of paying them not to plant. They put sprinklers on wheels, put pv on wheels. Put wind generation on wheels. Require every new home to have PV below the 45th parallel. Gotta have cats on our cars, lets put pv on homes. The real problem is that no government that I know of has the balls to actually do anything other than get out the first aid kit and ride right on down the middle of the road and until they start being part of the solution, they're the problem. You know what I see here in Michigan when I drive down the highway? Great big poles with 6 or 8 panels every damn mile.  Every single damn mile.  Michigan uses them instead of the grid for power along I-275. I recognize them. 150 watters. Every mile. I counted 72 poles along I-275 the last time I drove it. But, no incentives for the population to do the same thing. In the meantime they're taxing my ass to death while telling me what a great job they're doing repaving roads every 5 years instead of building the damn things right in the first place while forcing me to use more gasoline while they're taxing me for that too.

Now let me tell you how I really feel.

If you need to make hydrogen, here's how you do it. This is what you'll need.

1. A 12 volt battery.
2. # 2 pencils, cut off end with eraser. Sharpen. 
3. Salt.
4. Water.

Sharpen both ends of the pencils, hook the battery to the pencils, put the salt in the water. Put the pencils in the water. You're making hydrogen. Same thing they do on the space station for power on a smaller scale. The anode will create chlorine gas from the salt. Add more power to prevent this and release the oxy. Hey, a deep cycle would be perfect. Now, what are you going to do with the hydrogen?

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