tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post7747335960621433554..comments2024-03-28T03:12:12.079-05:00Comments on Northern Valley Beacon: Venting in the wind and other hopeless actsDavid Newquisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04937837001343753140noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5371904020164697258.post-43139884886759178292007-03-26T21:45:00.000-05:002007-03-26T21:45:00.000-05:00Thanks for continuing this discussion and adding m...Thanks for continuing this discussion and adding more information to the mix.<BR/><BR/>The book by Dr. George Olah is titled "Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy. He is not pushing hydrogen as the end point, but rather methanol which is stable and can be made by combining hydrogen and carbon dioxide..apparently.<BR/><BR/>Rockets were the rage when I was in highschool. One of my friends mixed a bunch of things together, used a fired 30-06 shell as the container or rocket chamber. Ignited it and filled the chem lab with smoke. It seemed to be mighty powerful combination. Unfortunately he could not remember what he had mixed together. We didn't blow the roof off the lab, but it was enough smoke to put most of our experimenting under more direct control of a faculty member.<BR/><BR/>Even so, I don't think we want to generalize from experiments that have more in common with Red Green than with Nobel Chemists.<BR/><BR/>Keep up the good work. Of course, my opinion might not be totally unbiased since you did quote me. Reader's MMV.Douglashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13822031428178023879noreply@blogger.com