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You haven't showed any evidence to support your belief that ethanol is the answer nor that a hydrogen economy is impossible.

You haven't explained where all the farmland will come from to produce the ethanol needed domestically to replace oil, nor where the energy to produce ethanol will come from. Or how you will get around the inputs of fertilizer, herbicide or insecticide without using petroleum.

You haven’t shown any evidence that Zubrin is anything but a fool with no knowledge of the nation’s energy problems.

And whenever you make a statement, like H2 stations are not possible, or its not possible to build a 10,000 psi tank I show you it has ALREADY been done.

Your only response has been to propose the creation of laws that will make Ethanol use mandatory - the environment and energy independence be dammed, and forcing people to drive your single seats cars since they clearly would never be competitive in a market based economy.

Finally, you just wave your aerospace experience like its some magic wisdom, while aerospace engineers are the joke of the tech community.

Here’s a joke I heard today. How many aerospace engineers does it take to change a lightbulb? No one knows, but if you put out a $10 million dollar RFP you will get a dozen proposals to study the problem using the principles of system enegineers and create a model to develop a flowchart that will determine the optimal number of aerospace engineers needed under a variety of conditions and skills sets. The results will be presented in two years in the form of a white paper, a strategic roadmap for future research and an accompany viewgraph explaining the results.

Meanwhile real engineers solve problems by actually building things, testing them and improving them by iterations. You and Zubrin theorize how a hydrogen car will behave in a wreck, real engineers do the crash tests and simple improve the design until it meets or exceeds certification requirements, as is the case with the prototypes hydrogen vehicles on the road today.

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