[Hugh R]

My dad was a nuclear physist at MIT and very big in the nuclear/hydrogen technology. His point about nukes was if you don't want nukes, what do you want? While conservation, is certainly good, and relying on a variety of energy is also good, wind turbines won't power a steel mill. Also, conversion of one form of energy to another is a net loss. As a simple example, if you used a gallon of gasoline to run electricity through water to generate the hydrogen (and oxygen) you'll get an amount of hydrogen (in BTUs) which would have less than a gallons worth BTUs in the original gallon of gasoline, i.e., you can't create more energy than you use. The same can be said for flowing natural gas through a fuel cell to convert it to hydrogen, you have a net loss of BTUs.