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Environment & Energy

GoreWon2000

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13. Your schooling and work credentials on this issue are?

Reply to FBaggins (Reply #8)

Wed Nov 20, 2024, 02:26 PM

Nov 2024

It's the aviation and automotive engineers who will build the cars and airplanes that will run on hydrogen. It was part of my engineer father's job to know how every aviation and automotive fuel is formulated and refined from crude oil. My engineer father well understood that the world had to stop burning fossil fuels. My engineer father's original inspiration for realizing that green hydrogen is the solution was the space shuttle which ran on liquid hydrogen and oxygen?

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US Unveils Plan to Triple Nuclear Power by 2050 as Demand Soars [View all] FBaggins Nov 2024 OP

Let's hope the fossil fuel industry runs out of money... Think. Again. Nov 2024 #1

Not sure they're going to need to FBaggins Nov 2024 #2

The CO2 situation is global... Think. Again. Nov 2024 #3

OK, I'm convinced OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #12

France and China demonstrated that it can be very fast FBaggins Nov 2024 #17

EDF seems to have lost their mojo OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #18

Meeting the new electricity demands of Artificial Idiocy, spyware, cryptocurrencies, etc., isn't enough. hunter Nov 2024 #4

True enough... but only so much can be done in 25 years FBaggins Nov 2024 #5

It could be accomplished quickly if we took the threat of global warming seriously. hunter Nov 2024 #6

James Hansen et al: Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim? OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #9

Let's see, "Pearl Harbor" some dramatic event to wake people up OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #11

Nuclear power is not green GoreWon2000 Nov 2024 #7

Your engineer father can be forgiven his error FBaggins Nov 2024 #8

"greenest non-malthusian path" OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #10

Your schooling and work credentials on this issue are? GoreWon2000 Nov 2024 #13

Physics - and standing a watch or two on an LA class sub FBaggins Nov 2024 #14

A minor quibble OKIsItJustMe Nov 2024 #15

True enough - I was using it the other way and was too cute FBaggins Nov 2024 #16

Physics not comparable to aviation/automotive engineering GoreWon2000 Nov 2024 #19