http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/2009/05/driving_forward/ is your source for the latest information on fuel cells. Sun, 01 Aug 2010 02:59:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/2009/05/driving_forward/#comment-5851 Richard Horwitz Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:25:17 +0000 http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/?p=109#comment-5851 If you had been listening to  Ira Flatow's "Science Friday" last week you would have heard a scientist talk about using carbonized chicken feathers for the storage of hydrogen. Much cheaper than creating carbon nano tubes. These feathers are disposed of at some cost and it makes sense to use them in this way. A fuel cell car or bus with a tankful of feathers sounds like a joke, but this man was serious. If you had been listening to  Ira Flatow’s “Science Friday” last week you would have heard a scientist talk about using carbonized chicken feathers for the storage of hydrogen. Much cheaper than creating carbon nano tubes. These feathers are disposed of at some cost and it makes sense to use them in this way. A fuel cell car or bus with a tankful of feathers sounds like a joke, but this man was serious.

]]> http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/2009/05/driving_forward/#comment-4373 Philip Block Mon, 18 May 2009 22:33:23 +0000 http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/?p=109#comment-4373 Fat chance. G.E. has the Democrats in their pocket. With a recent news remark that GE has donated some 20 million to the Dems., this is payback time. Recently, the GA State Leg. approved the two new reactors GA Pwr. is planning to install (GE) at a cost of 14 billion dollars. Today it came out that the Govt. (ie-taxpayer) is supposedly going to pay for them. So, all those liberal suckers in the Northeast will help pay for the nuclear power plants in GA while they have been nixing nuclear power for years--and rightly so. The previous nuclear fiasco that ended in the 1980s proved that a private power company cannot financially build nuclear power plants. Question? Does the 14 billion dollars include all the land that will have to be confiscated for the transmission lines and associated equipmnent? Does the 14 billion dollars inlude the nuclear waste cleanup from the plant? Probably not. Billions are presently being spent in an attempt to clean up the nuclear waste from some 22 or so site around the country. When is Yucca Mountain, a nuclear waste depositiory (cost--90 billion plus), going to be finished? Probably never. Somebody needs to do a real investigation into this new nuclear power fiasco. The news media? Fat chance. They are not going to jeopardize all the millions that GE is punping into them advertising green power. Also, since the majority of the news media is Dem. controlled, fat chance they would say anything. So--fat chance for anything being accomplished. The rest of the world will have to go forward with the 21st technology (Fuel Cells) while the good old USA withers away on the 20th century technology vine. Fat chance. G.E. has the Democrats in their pocket. With a recent news remark that GE has donated some 20 million to the Dems., this is payback time. Recently, the GA State Leg. approved the two new reactors GA Pwr. is planning to install (GE) at a cost of 14 billion dollars. Today it came out that the Govt. (ie-taxpayer) is supposedly going to pay for them. So, all those liberal suckers in the Northeast will help pay for the nuclear power plants in GA while they have been nixing nuclear power for years–and rightly so. The previous nuclear fiasco that ended in the 1980s proved that a private power company cannot financially build nuclear power plants. Question? Does the 14 billion dollars include all the land that will have to be confiscated for the transmission lines and associated equipmnent? Does the 14 billion dollars inlude the nuclear waste cleanup from the plant? Probably not. Billions are presently being spent in an attempt to clean up the nuclear waste from some 22 or so site around the country. When is Yucca Mountain, a nuclear waste depositiory (cost–90 billion plus), going to be finished? Probably never. Somebody needs to do a real investigation into this new nuclear power fiasco. The news media? Fat chance. They are not going to jeopardize all the millions that GE is punping into them advertising green power. Also, since the majority of the news media is Dem. controlled, fat chance they would say anything. So–fat chance for anything being accomplished. The rest of the world will have to go forward with the 21st technology (Fuel Cells) while the good old USA withers away on the 20th century technology vine.

]]> http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/2009/05/driving_forward/#comment-4175 Jennifer Tue, 12 May 2009 15:54:29 +0000 http://www.fuelcellinsider.org/?p=109#comment-4175 It's not too late to get the funding reinstated - contact your Congrssman!  Visit <a href="http://www.fuelcells.org/info/grassroots.html" rel="nofollow">www.fuelcells.org/info/grassroots.html</a> for links and resoureces. It’s not too late to get the funding reinstated - contact your Congrssman!  Visit http://www.fuelcells.org/info/grassroots.html for links and resoureces.

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