Ike
4/30/2006, 11:32 PM
Apparently, theres a senator that liked one of your ideas...
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?&siteid=lln&guid=%7B4D040A7E-BD16-4866-88A5-D14AE3A091D7%7D
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- With energy prices skyrocketing, lawmakers considered a bill Thursday that would offer more than $100 million in prize money to developers of technologies that would move the oil-dependent U.S. economy toward a hydrogen energy base.
Sponsored by Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., the legislation was the focus of a hearing at the House Science Committee. The measure would create three prize categories ranging from $1 million to $100 million to spur inventors to overcome the technical barriers to a widespread commercialization of hydrogen as an energy source.
granted, the nature of this would have the government doing what you proposed instead of energy businesses, but in essence, it's the same thing.
sort of.
This proposed legislation makes the assumption that hydrogen IS the wave of the future, which I kind of understand, because the number of hurdles there are to clear in order to make hydrogen the transportable fuel of choice are far fewer than for other fuels. So I can live with that assumption, but in reality, for something like this, I'd prefer to see that restriction removed.
Anyway, I thought you might like to know.
http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?&siteid=lln&guid=%7B4D040A7E-BD16-4866-88A5-D14AE3A091D7%7D
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- With energy prices skyrocketing, lawmakers considered a bill Thursday that would offer more than $100 million in prize money to developers of technologies that would move the oil-dependent U.S. economy toward a hydrogen energy base.
Sponsored by Rep. Bob Inglis, R-S.C., the legislation was the focus of a hearing at the House Science Committee. The measure would create three prize categories ranging from $1 million to $100 million to spur inventors to overcome the technical barriers to a widespread commercialization of hydrogen as an energy source.
granted, the nature of this would have the government doing what you proposed instead of energy businesses, but in essence, it's the same thing.
sort of.
This proposed legislation makes the assumption that hydrogen IS the wave of the future, which I kind of understand, because the number of hurdles there are to clear in order to make hydrogen the transportable fuel of choice are far fewer than for other fuels. So I can live with that assumption, but in reality, for something like this, I'd prefer to see that restriction removed.
Anyway, I thought you might like to know.