{"id":1342,"date":"2005-06-13T07:13:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-13T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2005-06-13T07:13:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-13T12:13:00","slug":"usa-today-on-energy-sigh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1342","title":{"rendered":"USA Today on energy.  *sigh*"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/world\/2005-06-12-global-warming-cover_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA\">USA today article<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/community\/infojunkies\/1829382.html\">found<\/a> on <lj user=infojunkies>.  <\/p>\n<p>Right, so, fuel cells, particularly <i>hydrogen<\/i> fuel cells are &#8220;pollution free&#8221; only if you think hydrogen comes from the hydrogen fairy.  Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are a very different technology, massively (like two times) more efficient at producing electricity from hydrocarbons.  And that still creates carbon dioxide.  Just half as much per megawatt hour.  <\/p>\n<p>As for burning coal without producing CO2, whoever came up with that idea did very poorly in chemistry 101.  <\/p>\n<p>Nuclear waste still represents a huge disposal problem.  As I understand it, not so much because enormous quantities of it are produced, but because it sticks around forever, leaks out of nearly any containment you put it in, and cannot be transported safely over long distances.<\/p>\n<p>And carbon sequestration gets only 5% (or less) of the funding for such a hare-brained scheme.  <\/p>\n<p>Biomass, people.  Biodiesel for your cars.  The things needed to make it work are a cheap source of vegetable oil (see also research on high oil algaes) and work on the emissions from diesel engines.  Not prevention of CO2, but catching the particulates which cause worse localized air conditions.  <\/p>\n<p>Biomass sucks the CO2 out of the air because it&#8217;s based on harvesting solar energy with plants.  <\/p>\n<p>Cheap, effective solar cells.<\/p>\n<p>Energy conservation.  And the best way to do that is to _raise energy prices_.  Slap a giant tax on non-renewable energy.  You want to stimulate innovation?  You want to see change in this country?  Make sure that it affects major corporate bottom lines, and watch them do a 180 on a dime.  <\/p>\n<p>So, work on that first.  Then focus on the further-from-usability fusion.  Because we&#8217;ll need it, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USA today article found on . Right, so, fuel cells, particularly hydrogen fuel cells are &#8220;pollution free&#8221; only if you think hydrogen comes from the hydrogen fairy. Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) are a very different technology, massively (like two times) more efficient at producing electricity from hydrocarbons. And that still creates carbon dioxide. Just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/?p=1342\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;USA Today on energy.  *sigh*&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}