Methyl hydrate should have been methane hydrate

Brett Dikeman brett at cloud9.net
Sat Aug 6 19:44:37 EDT 2005


On Aug 6, 2005, at 6:16 PM, Robert Myers wrote:

> It may well turn out that methane hydrate is indeed regenerable  
> starting with
> (something) but at what expense?

Same problem with ethanol (which comes from pork, if you catch my  
drift) and hydrogen.

> As Isaac Asimov (or was it Ray Bradbury?) once said, "TANSTAAFL".   
> There
> ain't no such thing as a free lunch.

Neither- economist Milton Friedman, I think.

Jim- easy there.  Bob frequently chimes in on threads involving  
chemistry, and explains things at a level aimed at the list, not  
individual listers; there wasn't much I found "patronizing,   
symbiotic, and insulting"- nor have I ever detected such a tone with  
him, and we've been on the list together for ages.

In fact, he said he didn't respond earlier out of politeness.

Brett
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