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Comment by Charles Michael Powers on October 22, 2009 at 7:22pm

Kenn, why bother with natural-gas or heating oil? There is a much cheaper, infinitely renewable energy source - water.
If only a fraction of the money that is spent on petroleum and natural gas research went into hydroxy research, we would have developed it to the point were every home could power it's self, and not put any contaminants into the atmosphere while doing it.
If a person were trying to design an energy system for a rapidly growing population, it would be hard to do worse than the one we have today.
It's dependent upon unstable regions and massive centralized networks. It's poisoning us with mercury, nuclear waist and heating the atmosphere with carbon. And it's finite.
We are perilously close to running out of one of our key energy resources, oil, and soon to follow will be natural gas, both are non-renewable.
Getting away from all of this won't be easy, and we're running out of time to make it happen.

But there's also good news: We know exactly what we need to do to get out of this mess, and we have all of the necessary tools at hand.
We're at the cusp of a massive transition, from the era of limited, subtractive energy resources to the era of unlimited, renewable energy sources.
For a variety of reasons, we've long relied upon energy resources that have finite quantities, and once used, leave us stuck with (often deadly) waste byproducts.
These resources were easy to find and cheap to use, but, from a long-term perspective, they were never really more than bootstrap technologies, allowing us to get to the point where we could shift to energy resources that are functionally limitless, and entirely renewable.
That point is here NOW.
The only thing holding us back from this clean, infinitly renewable energy source is research funding.
But that is to be expected, considering the fact that once the hydroxy industry kicks into high gear, billions of dollars will be lost by the people that are running the energy supply business.
When a home needs no oil, coal or natural gas to heat it, or supply it's electric needs, the economy will take a huge shift.
When a car or truck no longer needs fossil fuel to get from point "A" to point "B", we will no longer be under the control of an unstable region, and the economy will take another huge shift.

The thing about hydroxy to remember is, it's not hydrogen made through a chemical process at a huge plant, then transported in huge tanks that can rupture and cause extreme damage. Hydroxy is made right at the point of use, and it's as safe or safer than natural gas with it's only exhaust being clean water.

Peace.
Mike.