Richard van den Berg wrote:

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 00:22:15 GMT scbafreak via BoatKB.com
(u25927@uwe) wrote:

Nope, just no economical feedstock supply in sufficient quantity.
Everybody goes crazy over using french fry oil for diesel, but how
much used FF oil is there, anyway? Not enough to make even the
slightest dent in the diesel usage in the USA. Other sources simply
aren't economical now. Economics may play out in the long run, but for
now, it just ain't gonna work, unless of course the gummit mandates it
and (as usual) screws with the laws of economics. It's still a fad for
now.


Well there is another option. All of those farmers that get paid by the
government to not farm could grow appropriate plants and use them to create
biodeisel. That would be the Gov't interferring less with economics and a
source of a lot of fuel. I really don't know all of the in and outs of this
but it might be a viable means of producing fuel and resucing federal
spending/medling.


In Germany there has been a study if a farmer can be self supportive and
the answer is yes. Complete with a study on the effects that biodiesel
has on the machinery.
The conclusion the way I read it was that it is all economical possible
but not a Walhalla.

But hey we boaters are much better of with fuel cells that run on
hydrogen. Were floating on H2O.


Floating on H2O is not an issue. The issue s breaking the water into
hydrogen and oxygen, and dealing with the handling and the efficiency
issues.

There will likely (unless there is a great change in the way that we
currently deal with hydrogen) never be a "hydrogen economy" as the
energy and efficiency issues are not realistic at this time.

It's a nice dream, but reality eventually raises it's ugly head.

--
“TAANSTAFL”

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