Re: [privacy] Medical firms sue to access Rx information

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

On 8/2/06, der Mouse <mouse () rodents montreal qc ca> wrote:
> [This doesn't have much to do with privacy any longer; perhaps it
> should move somewhere else?]

sure, meet me on alt.religon.scientology ;-)


> > The laws of thermodynamics make pulling hydrogen from water impractical.

> > More energy goes in than comes out.

> The latter is true.  The former is not.
>
> Cracking water into hydrogen and oxygen is not done because it's an
> energy win.  It's done in order to convert energy that's available in a
> less useful form into some other more useful form.
>
> To pick one simple example, let's suppose that we're using sunlight as
> the energy source to crack water.

We should use water to crack water:

http://www.fiveregionsofthefuture.com/region/entries/OceanCurrentSpinsTurbineToGenerateElectricity
http://www.oceanpowertechnologies.com/
http://peswiki.com/index.php/Directory:Ocean_Wave_Energy
(this is that same link, but I just had to post a link from treehugger.com =P )
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/07/wave_power_proj.php

-JP<who had an idea to use the gulf stream to spin a turbine years ago :-(>
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