On 4 Sep 10, WAYNE CHIRNSIDE wrote to MIMI GALLANDT:
on the subject: COMMENT? 

 JB>>They already exist.  Capitalism has to make them practical and
 JB>>affordable.  It is only a matter of time.

 MG>> I'm familiar with the hybrid, which if I understand this correctly,
 MG>> uses half gas and half electric but still uses gas.

 WC> Not only that but for the most part they simply use petrochemical 
 WC> fuels burned at remote power plants to generate the electricity that 
 WC> propels them.

Those hybrids are using the gas engines on board to generate the
electricity.  In So Ca where Ms Gallandt lives most electric energy is
generated either at nuclear plants or hydro electric sites.


 MG>> I'm familiar with
 MG>> "natural gas" vehicles the vast majority of SD
Transit's busses are
 MG>> powered by that, but if I'm recalling what I head correctly natural
gas
 MG>> is found in pockets along with oil so that doesn't help either. OK
I
 MG>> know this came from a fiction book but I read about an engine powered
 MG>> by hydrogen and I believe that hydrogen is the most common substance
in
 MG>> the universe, maybe separating hydrogen from other elements makes it
 MG>> cost prohibitive I don't know I'm hardly a scientist. :)

 WC>  Uh, they're called *elements* because they are not further divisable
 WC> into constituent parts.

 WC> Hydrogen is indeed the most plentiful element in the universe however
 WC> that does not make it economical as a fuel until such time
 WC> a cost effective way is found to produce it.

You don't "produce" hygrogen.  You separate from other elements in
compounds.  Which is waht she said.



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