On Dec 29, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Stephen R Phillips wrote:

> Bio Fuels are merely a drop in the bucket in terms of energy.
> They are not very efficient in terms of yield.  Only thing
> I can think of is farmers can remain solvent with the idea.

Yeah, it probably works out that the bio-fuel interest is actually
farming special interests having their way, and the hydrogen stuff
is the big natural gas producers hedging their bets (sources of
hydrogen for the foreseeable future come from fossil fuels), and
the fusion research is just a way of funding "big science."  All
politics (well, almost all; I don't doubt that there is some value
to each of those regardless of "real" motivation.)  Feh.  This is
the sort of thing that keeps all those "free energy" quacks in
business; it's SO easy to believe in government and big energy
conspiracies to suppress "real" solutions...

BillW

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