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Vanessa: |
"What do you foresee the long-term plan to be?" |
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Captain Ozone: |
"Like you said, natural gas, petroleum and coal are not pollution-free, renewable resources to make hydrogen fuel from. Neither is nuclear power. The long-term plan is to make hydrogen from pollution-free and renewable resources such as wind, solar, and hydro power, or even biomass." |
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Vanessa: |
"Yes, but can these pollution-free and renewable resources, at present, create enough hydrogen to power the 600,000,000 automobiles around the world today?" |
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Captain Ozone: |
"Of course not. At present, there are not enough wind turbines, solar panels and hydroelectric dams to produce enough hydrogen to power that many automobiles. But, more of these pollution-free and renewable resources can be built worldwide." |
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Vanessa: |
"You're talking about a gargantuan task." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"Yes, somewhere at the tune of over a trillion dollars, worldwide, spent over a period of a decade." |
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Vanessa: |
"That seems very improbable." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"During WWII, almost a trillion dollars in 1940's currency was spent on mass destruction, worldwide, in just six years. You can't see all of our nations, today, spending a trillion dollars on mass productivity, in just ten years?" |
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Vanessa: |
"Yes, I can see that, but only if there was some sort of global emergency." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"You don't consider global warming to be an emergency?" |
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Vanessa: |
"I don't perceive it to be an emergency, quite yet. But I can see it becoming an emergency in the near future." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"It will become an emergency thirty years from now if the world continues to rely on coal, petroleum and natural gas as primary fuel sources." |
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Vanessa: |
"Thirty years from now? How do you know this?" |
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Captain Ozone: |
"I have seen it." |
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Vanessa: |
"Oh, I see...uh-huh, uh-huh." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"Even if the rest of the world does not convert to pollution-free and renewable energy sources, our country must so that we can be energy self-sufficient. Depending on the Middle East for oil weakens our national strength. With hydrogen, the U.S. could be energy self-sufficient. Also, changing to a hydrogen-based economy will create thousands of new industrial and scientific jobs. Building plants, manufacturing parts and selling equipment will all be investments that stimulate jobs and growth." |
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