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I noticed that this week the EU have agreed  to bring in a common standard for refilling hydrogen fuelled cars.  This I have to say is great news... Especially if your French... sadly it should be great news for us, but alas its not... because the govt is short sighted or doesn’t have the guts..
So the good news.. unlike LPG if we drive around the continent in 10 odd years time in our combustion engine based hydrogen cars the fill up method will be the same... I guess this also paves the way I hope for the introduction of hydrogen based transportation... the sooner we are off Middle Eastern oil the better... and that was my point about good for the French... you see hydrogen in its self isn’t a fuel we just extract like oil... it takes us energy to make it (the easiest way is using electricity) and therefore unfortunately that takes us back to oil or gas or coal... now some green men are jumping up and down about coal... so that’s out.. (funny I thought coal was just dead trees.. and would eventually become again more dead trees in the grand cycle of things.... ) the only realistic secure (national security) way of generating power is Nuclear since we can mine the uranium here and process it and then make power... however it takes ten odd years from some guy  saying yes to actually seeing the power... and this govt... well have dithered and dithered. For about that length of time.. no real surprise since browns been the man.. a bit more of a surprise with shrewder Blair... but past be past..  so now we will probably have brown outs in a few years when our Nuclear stations are decommissioned and the wind turbines they built to replace them don’t spin because the wind went south for a holiday!  But that’s ok we will just buy expensive gas and oil from the east!
Category: Politics
Published: 06/09/2008 00:20