Monday, November 12, 2007

Alternative Fuels

On November 8th, the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) hosted a small alternative fuels conference organized by the San Diego Regional Clean Fuels Coalition and the San Diego Regional Sustainability Partnership Transportation Committee. The morning agenda was excellent.

Joanna Underwood convincingly argued in her keynote that natural gas is the only sensible stepping stone to a hydrogen economy. She noted that natural gas is H4C, which is mostly hydrogen, and that natural gas cars will run on hydrogen when it becomes cheap and plentiful. "We went from Kitty Hawk to the moon in 50 years".

Dave Richards argued in favor of bio diesel, but, in my opinion the pollutants resulting from combustion, although mitigated, are just not worth it.

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