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Bob:
You dissapoint me. The last thing this country needs is more lawyers.
At least a degree in engineering would teach people to think rationally
about THINGS instead of how to scew people. Do you really argue for
fewer science degrees? Look at the starting salaries for physics and
engineering types, very high and they just go higher as they go into
management. Engineers build the economy while lawyers are a net drain
on the economy.

A good lawyer makes more than a great engineer. Society values lawyers more.
A lawyer can make you rich if you are a victim, or cause you to lose it all
if you are negligent. Lawyers are the feedback mechanism for poorly
engineered products. An engineer can create some new ringtones for your
phone or cause the lights to blink in some new sequence. All the popular TV
shows are about lawyers. Babes can be lawyers, but very rarely are
engineers.



As far as hydrogen goes, the best way to generate it is to use low
intensity replaceable sources such as wind or wave power.

In whose back yard? Lawyers will stop this if it ruins a view, harms a
species, endangers commerce, or is a nuisance.

Use it to
make CH4 from the Co2 in air and water.

Why not just drill a small diameter hole in the ground and pump out methane?
When you visualize wave/tidal generators think of oil platforms end to end
from horizon to horizon.

Methane is far better to run
fuel cells than H2 and the net carbon gain to the atmosphere is zero.

Only if the methane comes from the atmosphere. However, there is a net
thermal gain to the atmosphere, double that of just pumping methane out of
the ground.

This also eliminates the need to build power lines to all these small
distributed replaceable sources. Instead, just pressurize (liquefy)
thje methane and truck it out every week or so just like they do with
oil wells.

By economy of scale it is far cheaper to have centralized power production
and run power lines.


Your emotionalism over Bush has gotten in the way of your reasoning.

I believe your order is wrong. First I reasoned about Bush, then I became
emotional.

The less engineers, the better. That means more work and pay for existing
engineers.

I also encourage more people to smoke heavily. It will reduced the burden on
entitlement programs for senoirs by reducing lifespan.

Amen!