Sunday, June 12, 2005

911 In Plan Site


A client gave this DVD to the Brain Growth team saying he refused to watch it himself because it just looked to far fetched. The team decided to check the gullibility of the Bigger Brain and found that viewing this documentary caused a considerable growth spurt.

"How come we never asked these questions before?" commented A. Kovattana, host of the bigger brain.

"I'm ordering copies for my boss and my mother," said her partner Catherine.

The pair have since called upon their friends to view this eye-opening film.

"It just makes me so mad," said friend Peggy who was highly skeptical, and didn't want to see it, "I mean if there was no plane at the Pentagon then who died, where did the plane go? I mean real people did die."

"I'm glad more people are beginning to consider the lies we've been told," said Martine who is French and had a head start.

Answers to these and other questions sent the Bigger Brain on a new quest.

Monday, June 06, 2005

Hype About Hydrogen


By Joseph J. Romm, 2004

This subject was a stretch for the Bigger Brain. We are not used to numbers and technological geeky stuff. This is also a confusing subject because there is too much information, too many methods of making hydrogen and fuel cell cars have so far to go before they are viable, if ever. The book forces the reader to study all the options in order to begin to know what is important even though Romm is trying to tell us. He's just trying to tell us everything.

It is easy to see why the public is so easily duped on this one. The questions to ask are:
1) How is the hydrogen made and at what cost?
2) Who will pay for the infrastructure?
3) Will fuel cell cars ever be affordable and therefore commerically viable when hybrid solutions are so much more feasible?

Hydrogen takes four times more energy to make from water for use in a fuel cell car than is used in an electric car for equivalent number of miles. Not counting the energy needed to keep it under pressure and to transport it to fueling stations. More emissions created to make hydrogen using current electical grid than if we just used gasoline. Unlilke Iceland we will likely never have more renewable energy than we know what to do with. Best use of hydrogen fuel cells would be for stationary application to power buildings.