Weekend Blogscan 15-03-2008
Posted by Greg at 09:05, 15 Mar 2008A few things to keep you busy over the weekend...
- Michael Tymn is "Debunking the NDE Debunkers" on his blog. It's like a debunking vortex.
- Curious Expeditions takes you on a tour of bioluminescence, in "Living Lights: A Glowing Compendium".
- Cracked riffs on "Seven Insane Conspiracies That Actually Happened".
- Robert McLuhan says there are "No Shortcuts" to properly understanding the argument for life after death.
- Loren Coleman is giving regular updates on his "Pinky Expedition" at Cryptomundo.com.
- Charles Eisenstein goes in search of "The Original Religion" for Reality Sandwich.
- The latest eSkeptic newsletter features "The Hydrogen Economy
Savior of Humanity or an Economic Black Hole?", by Alice Friedemann. - Filer's Files #11 for 2008 has the latest ufological roundup.
- Greg Bishop continues his discussion about "The (UFO) Aviary" in part two of his UFO Mystic series. Part one is here.
- The latest Skeptico podcast features Dr Marc Beckoff discussing animal consciousness and emotions.
Enjoy!
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22 November 2004
5 days 13 hours
The article starts out saying that "Unlike gasoline, hydrogen isn’t an energy source — it’s an energy carrier, like a battery."
Now that is nonsense, in that gasoline is not an energy source either. We have to pump or dig it out of the ground, as oil or coal. Then we have to invest serious amounts of energy to make gasoline. And yes you can make gasoline from coal.
Like hydrogen, oil and gas and coal are energy sinks.
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1 May 2004
1 year 31 weeks
Hi earthling,
I think the key difference that the insiders consider is that gasoline derived from crude has about a 10 percent energy overhead getting it out of the ground and into your tank. (That is one of the reasons that 'peak oil' is scary, as it starts bloating that overhead.) On the other hand, hydrogen is so energy expensive, it is essentially break even on whatever you start with. Hence, the battery analogy. I'm not sure whether it is worse than ethanol, but in any case, it doesn't solve anything, except maybe displacing pollution to unpopulated areas.
Jet fuel from coal is my favorite solution. We have centuries of the stuff and the plants can be put almost anywhere near the (remote) coal fields.