K: most people are aware. This is about increasing efficiency to the likes of gasoline. ts: gasoline in your car doesnt require a power plant, so does that mean the sea of gasoline underground is too different? IDK maybe it is maybe it isnt.
This is about removing or at least reducing the complexities of hydrogen storage. the article speaks of moving the electrolysis process to the inside of the car. If you do this you have no storage aside from the water it comes from since hydrogen would be immediately used. As for energy input, this technology has greatly increased the efficiency of the electrolyser (which is one of the biggest problem of electrolysis) to 85 percent. Promises of 96 percent in coming years. The only problems i see are those common to nanoparticles themselves and the fact that you have to use distilled water at this point.
To mmmaher: once in orbit, its in orbit. No malfuctioning part is going to bring it down, only gravity or an outside force. You can't stand up and shout at imperfection, that isn't realistic. I doubt they had intentions for their SPY SATELLITE to fail, it was most likely something they couldnt help. To jeff: It doesnt matter what division of what branch "payed for the repair job" it still comes out of our pockets. We buy the govt., military, and rediculous obsolete measures such and this through taxes.
I believe that with some very sophisticated mathematics they could pinpoint where it would land to at least a fair degree of acuracy. They figured out how to shoot it down for crying out loud and that is my proof. Therefore I believe it would have landed in an area that they wouldnt have wanted it to (China/Middle East = a lot of land mass). And I presume that is the main and most important reason; no question about it. The only important questions are: What are they hiding? From whom are they hiding this? And Why? And these are ones we may never know.
When we reach peak oil, China will at the other end of an energy tug-o-war. We DO have things to prove to them as they are a (powerfully) developing nation with a rising middle class/population who are soon to be (in my opinion) one of the next world superpowers; as our middle class continues to fade. The cold war is living proof that pissing contests do exist so don't be so quick to deny that. Its something we should always remember. In fact, war in general is proof. However there is no way that this is the only reason and I'm sure that the fact being this is a spy satellite has a lot to do with it. Two-birds one stone do you see? Doesnt have to be one or the other.
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