XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: gossg@gossg.org   
      
   "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"  wrote:   
      
   >	If you're gonna use electricity to manufacture your fuel, why not   
   >manufacture gasoline? We already have the infrastructure to store and   
   >transport it, we're intimately familiar with its hazards and how to   
   >control them, it's got awesome energy density, and you don't have to   
   >convert 250 million cars over in order to use it.   
      
   Or other molecules that are large enough to stay in tanks without   
   leaking, and are easy to liquify.  Matt Simmons was trying to get   
   funding to build a bunch of windmills on the Grand Banks.  Shallow   
   water, not blocking anyone's view, steady winds, but too far out to   
   run cables.  His plan was to generate ammonia, ship that to shore, and   
   burn it onshore.  I'm not clear whether he was hoping to develop an   
   ammonia-based vehicle fuel infrastructure, or just burn it in power   
   stations once it got to land.   
      
   The venture collapsed when he died of a heart attack.   
      
   >	Just build a bunch more generating stations. Preferably nuclear, maybe   
   >thorium cycle if they get the bugs out.   
      
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