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Hydrogen economy

Solve five big problems all at once: corn subsidies converge with the hydrogen reactor to power our entire economy on clean fuels

Tuesday, March 23, 2004
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all articles...)
Tags: hydrogen economy, environmental pollution, hydrogen reactors


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There's a lot more to this news than meets the eye. Here's where the hydrogen economy meets food politics, and the result is intruiguing. Let me set the stage: we have at least two big problems in the United States that converge here. First, there's the problem of using fossil fuels to power our homes, businesses, automobiles and factories. It's a dead-end system that will eventually fail us, and in the mean time, it also results in wars being fought over the limited supply of fossil fuels. Secondly, we have a glut of corn in this country. Farming has become so efficient that farmers are actually paid to stop growing corn. For many farmers, nearly half of their income is derived from taxpayer subsidies where they collect a check for not growing corn. Yes, as Americans, we all subsidize corn.

This is why corn-based products are so cheap in the marketplace, by the way: high-fructose corn syrup is dirt cheap, so it's added to a surprisingly large array of foods and beverages (all non-diet soft drinks are sweetened with it, for starters). We've got corn chips, corn syrups, corn breads, corn cereals, and of course corn-fed beef. In fact, more than 50% of all commercially produced foods contain molecules that originally came from corn. Corn is everywhere, and the only way the corn industry can get rid of it all is to force-feed it to U.S. consumers.

But now there's a better solution: ethanol from corn. We already have ethanol added to gasoline at the gas pump, which helps get rid of some of the corn, but what if we could power our homes, businesses and industrial complexes off corn? Well now we can.

Researchers have produced a tiny hydrogen reactor that can take ethanol from corn (which is dirt cheap) and covert it directly into electricity. You don't have to burn it, there are no harmful waste products, and it produces a steady stream of electricity from a unit no bigger than a television set. This unit could power homes, businesses, and possibly even automobiles.

In the prototype, the unit produced a steady 1 KW of power. That's not quite enough for most homes, but it's close. With some evolution in the technology, doubling the output probably isn't too far off. A steady 2KW of power is sufficient for many homes, and for those homes that need more power, these units can obviously operate in series to double, triple or quadruple the output.

Now step back for a minute and consider the possibilities here. Instead of engaging in wars to control oil supplies in the Middle East, we could just tell our U.S. farmers to start growing more corn. We'd stop paying them to NOT grow corn and ask them to grow more. All that corn would be refined into ethanol, and that ethanol would produce the electricity needed to power our entire economy. It's power from the sun. It's renewable, it's clean, and it's all doable right now. This solves at least five big problems all at once: 1) dependence on foreign oil, 2) limited supply of fossil fuels, 3) environmental pollution due to the burning of fossil fuels, 4) global warming due to the burning of fossil fuels, 5) oversupply of corn in the U.S..

So what's keeping this from becoming mainstream? It's the money, stupid. There's tremendous profit and control in the existing oil economy. President Bush and his buddies are steeped in the fossil fuel economy and reaping obscene profits from our dependence on oil. There's no motivation for the people in charge to move to a clean fuel economy, and the need for oil provides lots of justification to start wars, scare the American people into forfeiting the Bill of Rights, and all sorts of other ploys that pay off for a handful of people who, unfortunately, run the show right now.

But clean fuel is here right now. It's proven, it's doable, and it's a much better choice than fossil fuels. We don't need oil, we don't need wars, and we certainly don't need a stodgy old group of oil barons running our country and foreign policy. It's time to switch to something cleaner, both in terms of politics and fuels. And this tiny hydrogen reactor could be the catalyst for real change.

Don't make the mistake of thinking we're dependent on oil. We're not. It's a political ploy. Hydrogen power is available right now, or at least in the VERY near future. If we wanted to, we could start growing corn, building hydrogen reactors, and start powering our homes with this technology in under five years. There's absolutely nothing in the way except for the people in charge who have a vested interest in keeping us all steeped in the oil economy.


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About the author:Mike Adams (aka the "Health Ranger") is a best selling author (#1 best selling science book on Amazon.com) and a globally recognized scientific researcher in clean foods. He serves as the founding editor of NaturalNews.com and the lab science director of an internationally accredited (ISO 17025) analytical laboratory known as CWC Labs. There, he was awarded a Certificate of Excellence for achieving extremely high accuracy in the analysis of toxic elements in unknown water samples using ICP-MS instrumentation. Adams is also highly proficient in running liquid chromatography, ion chromatography and mass spectrometry time-of-flight analytical instrumentation.

Adams is a person of color whose ancestors include Africans and Native American Indians. He's also of Native American heritage, which he credits as inspiring his "Health Ranger" passion for protecting life and nature against the destruction caused by chemicals, heavy metals and other forms of pollution.

Adams is the founder and publisher of the open source science journal Natural Science Journal, the author of numerous peer-reviewed science papers published by the journal, and the author of the world's first book that published ICP-MS heavy metals analysis results for foods, dietary supplements, pet food, spices and fast food. The book is entitled Food Forensics and is published by BenBella Books.

In his laboratory research, Adams has made numerous food safety breakthroughs such as revealing rice protein products imported from Asia to be contaminated with toxic heavy metals like lead, cadmium and tungsten. Adams was the first food science researcher to document high levels of tungsten in superfoods. He also discovered over 11 ppm lead in imported mangosteen powder, and led an industry-wide voluntary agreement to limit heavy metals in rice protein products.

In addition to his lab work, Adams is also the (non-paid) executive director of the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center (CWC), an organization that redirects 100% of its donations receipts to grant programs that teach children and women how to grow their own food or vastly improve their nutrition. Through the non-profit CWC, Adams also launched Nutrition Rescue, a program that donates essential vitamins to people in need. Click here to see some of the CWC success stories.

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Adams is well known for his incredibly popular consumer activism video blowing the lid on fake blueberries used throughout the food supply. He has also exposed "strange fibers" found in Chicken McNuggets, fake academic credentials of so-called health "gurus," dangerous "detox" products imported as battery acid and sold for oral consumption, fake acai berry scams, the California raw milk raids, the vaccine research fraud revealed by industry whistleblowers and many other topics.

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