| J. Clarke 2006-02-19, 8:21 pm |
| H2-PV NOW wrote:
>
> Gunner wrote:
>
> The USA is pretty fanatical about the coming HYDRGEN ECONOMY. The
> Fanatic George W. Bush has budgetted $1.200,000,000 over the next five
> years for it.
Yeah, it's less than a third of the "other functions" category in the
Federal R&D budget. That's under 1% of the overall R&D budget. Ol'
George sure is fanatical all right.
> According to HIS EMPLOYEES at the National Laboratories. Hydrogen
> production from solar energy will be price competitive with gasoline by
> 2012. Here's their figures, which I trust more than YOUR figures
> because they actually test solar energy and Hydrogen production methods
> and you just sit on your fat azz in front of a computer screen mouthing
> off.
Seems to me that I recall another solar advocate about 30 years ago placing
a bunch of high hopes on a government promise. Turns out in the real world
they never came closer than 2 orders of magnitude of what they were
promising.
<vast amounts of blather snipped>
Something that you have to learn is that _all_ scientific programs show
great promise and prospect of an immenent breakthrough when it comes time
to request more funding. Never believe anything the government tells you
unless it's bad news.
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