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ALTERNATE WORLD: A LEAP INTO HYPERDRIVE? OR MAYBE JUST HYPE?

New Horizons, which is on its way to Pluto, is the fastest spacecraft ever built. Even so, the trip will take nine years. At the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics meeting last year, an award was given for a paper about a new propulsion system that could do it in a day. So why are we doing it the old-fashioned way? Because it works. There are two worlds. There is the world that sends robots to explore Mars, finds a vaccine for cervical cancer, unravels the structure of DNA, invents Global Positioning, etc. And then there is an alternate world that discovers cold fusion, homeopathy, the Podkletnov gravity shield, hydrinos, and the Heim space drive. Inhabitants of both worlds speak similar languages, look alike, even have identical DNA. It's not just that things don't work in the alternate world, that can happen even in the real world. But in the alternate world it doesn't seem to make any difference.

THE HYDROGEN CAR: TRANSPORTATION IN THE ALTERNATE WORLD. Huge gaps in virtually every field of science would have to be overcome for a hydrogen car to be feasible. The goal is for hydrogen vehicles to be in showrooms by 2020, 12 years after Bush leaves office. Energy Secretary Bodman kicked off the Washington Auto Show on Tuesday with the announcement of $119M in funding and a "Research Roadmap." It's a roadmap of the alternate world.

Mr. Parks is a bit of a moonbat, but I forgive most of his lunacy because he keeps a jaundiced eye on everything. For Hydrogen cars to be cost effective and REALLY fuel efficient we need to learn how to make Hydrogen from other sources. Burning 10 gallons of fossil fuel to make 2 gallons of Hydrogen has the moonies quite gleeful because math was never their forte. The pollution and "waste" of energy is therefore location specific so they feel all smug and shit without realizing that their little crap box might not be using irreplaceable energy while it's on the road, but the process of making that energy is out of the question were it to be employed nation-wide.