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Vanessa: |
"You're still talking about a gargantuan task. It would take America at least a half a century to build enough solar panels, wind turbines and hydroelectric dams to produce enough hydrogen gas to power all of our ships, planes, automobiles and factories. Let's try to be realistic here." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"I am being realistic. During WWII, our nation, aided by a huge governmental effort, retooled every major factory in order to manufacture ships, planes, tanks and guns for the war effort. This was all accomplished in only 11 months, and our aircraft industry in WWII grew to become the largest industry in the world. If America accomplished all that back in the 1940's, in only 11 months, don't you think America, today, can convert to a hydrogen-based economy in ten years?" |
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Vanessa: |
"Yes, I do. Only one problem, Captain..." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"What?" |
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Vanessa: |
"There are still enough crude fossil materials left on Earth to last the whole-wide-world another 150 years. That doesn't give all our nations, including America, much of an incentive to change to a hydrogen-based economy - especially in just ten years." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"I agree. But our country is spending billions of dollars each year defending access to oil in the Middle East, and billions more financing oil explorations. We can spend the same amount of money towards a hydrogen-based economy instead. Call me a crackpot, idealistic dreamer if you will. But it's feasibly within our price-range to build a hydrogen-based economy within the next decade. Incidentally, in the not-too-distant future, there's a good chance that Paul Allen will generate some historic progress for the hydrogen fuel industry." |
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Vanessa: |
"Paul Allen? How do you know this? Oh, never mind. Incidentally, I saw in your documentary that you're a notorious prankster." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"Indeed, I am. But if you notice when it comes to hydrogen fuel technologies, I don't joke around." |
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Vanessa: |
"I also read on the Internet that you starred in the first hydrogen fuel PSA to be televised in America." |
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Captain Ozone: |
"That's right, Vanessa. The PSA was written and directed by two seventh-grade girls from Seattle, and the US Department of Energy pooled resources with us. I also helped write and direct another hydrogen fuel PSA which featured a ten-year-old boy that was filmed in my laboratory. If you go to 4hydrogen.com, you can view these PSAs. You can also make a tax-deductible donation through this website to Environmental Media Northwest, the non-profit organization that produced the PSA's." |
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