“Garry wants cheap oil…”

Garry doesn’t want cheap oil… Garry wants oil to be $1,000 a barrel.

Maybe then fuel cells and solar power and wind power will get a bit more investment and mature much quicker. The only reason we have fuel cell technology now is from the conventionally powered submarine air independant propulsion investment and development… otherwise it would have been ignored as a technology…

Of course that would be bad for oil states like countries in the ME and indeed Venesuala and Russia, but good for countries with the technology to develop fuel cells to a level where they are competitive… countries like the US and Japan and Germany.

But there is too much investment in oil. Exxon Valdez II anyone? Can’t happen with Hydrogen. (Don’t confuse Hydrogen as a fuel in a fuel cell with, say a hydrogen bomb or the Hindenberg. To make a hydrogen bomb you need a special isotope of Hydrogen called deturium… commonly found in sea water… you also need to heat it to about 3 million degrees celcius. The hindenberg burnt with bright orange flames… hydrogen fires are invisible… the horrific burning of the hindenberg was the nitrocellulose that was used to make the skin and part of the structure. The rest of the structure is aluminium. Nitrocellulose is also known as guncotton or smokeless powder in modern firearms, while aluminium powder is used in fireworks. The fireball that was the hindenburg was the skin and structure burning… the hyrdogen helped the fire of course, but replace the hydrogen with petrol (gasoline) and it would have exploded rather than just burned… ie been much worse.