Remember John?

So do you guys remember John? I talked about him in Inadequate People.

Well for a refresh, he's the Conservative Parties appointed Environment Minister. What you say, Conservatives and Environment? Can those two words be together in the same sentence. Well, yes they can when you add inadequate into it.

Why the ranting this time? Well the Federal Government is providing an initiative for developing a Hydrogen Highway. Natural Resource Canada says The Canadian Transportation Fuel Cell Alliance is a $33 million federal government initiative that will demonstrate and evaluate fueling options for fuel cell vehicles in Canada. I'm happy that the government is looking at initiatives for reducing our Green House Gases (GHGs), but I don't think that Hydrogen is the way to go.

In the Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler, he says: The widespread belief that hydrogen is going to save technological societies from the fast-approaching oil and gas reckoning is probably a good index of how delusional our oil-addicted society has become. The idea is enticing because the only by-product of burning hydrogen is water vapour, and that would seem to obviate most of the world's global warming and air pollution worries...[however] the problem is that hydrogen is not exactly a fuel. It takes more energy to manufacture hydrogen than they hydrogen itself produces.

If hydrogen was more efficient it may be a plausible option, but everything I have heard about it makes me believe it won't work.

Read the CBC news report about the Conservatives new energy plan, which was released at the G8 meeting in Germany earlier today. It says they're working on something that will surpass the previous Kyoto Agreement, but just last month the Conservatives said they won't even come close to meeting the Kyoto targets. I'm so confused! What are you doing?! Besides investing billions of tax payers dollars on "initiatives" that keep changing!

On a positive note, there is a solar powered community in Okatokes, Alberta! Read about it from another CBC report. They've gone solar powered! Cool!

Well, that's what's on my mind today. Now it's time to go write another essay!

Cheers!