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Suggested Answers To The Short Quiz - Possible Global Warming Solution (Hydrogen Extraction) In Danger Of Being Killed!!!

Question 1

What is the most altruistic reason for trying to solve Global Warming?

Answer 1

As deserts spread both north and south from the equator, many countries will no longer be able to grow their own food.

Altruism on the part of countries further north and south would permit inhabitants of the now-desert countries to immigrate rather than, like happened with Noah’s Ark, to slam the door in their faces.

[And yes, we realize that the Story of Noah’s Ark involved flood rather than famine.]

Question 2

What is the most selfish reason for trying to solve Global Warming?

Answer 2

Elizabeth Kolbert’s “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History” (Bloomsbury Publishing 2014) explains, inter alia, that 90% of the world’s species became extinct in one or another of the first five major mass extinctions which occurred over the last half a billion years AND THAT 50% OF THE WORLD’S REMAINING SPECIES ARE BECOMING EXTINCT DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING.

This could easily have a double-barrel effect on whether the human race survives.

First, there may be a species that could wipe out the human race except it is being kept in check by another species WHICH MAY BECOME EXTINCT, unleashing a plague on the human race that will wipe it out.

And secondly, studying the species which has become extinct but had been keeping the lethal-to-humans species in check, may have been the only practical way medical research could have found a cure that would have saved the human race from extinction.

Question 3

Is burning hydrogen carbon free?

Answer 3

Yes. Burning (aka oxidizing) hydrogen produces only water. [2H2 + O2 > 2H2O]

Question 4

Had Europe and California by the early 2000’s constructed a network of hydrogen refueling stations that permitted hydrogen-powered cars to travel vast distances?

Answer 4

Yes.

Question 5

And had several manufacturers, such as BMW, sold standard models whose engines had been tweaked to run on hydrogen? Indeed, had the BMW models been tweaked to run on either gasoline or hydrogen depending on hydrogen availability at the moment/locality?

Answer 5

Yes. Yes.

Question 6

However, did it appear that “The Hydrogen Highway” would ever be practical because there was at that time no economical source for vast amounts of hydrogen fuel?

Answer 6

No, it did not appear practical.

Question 7

BTW, if vast amounts of hydrogen fuel became economical, could it supply all of humanity’s needs including not only powering vehicles, homes, factories, etc., but even hydrogen-powered airplanes?

Answer 7

Yes.

Re airplanes, the U.S. Department of Defense in the 1950’s was hell-bent on developing airplanes powered (like submarines and aircraft carriers) by on-board nuclear reactors, but the “bean counters” forced DoD to use airborne re-fueling tankers for long-range bombing missions.

So one would think that hydrogen power for airplanes would be even easier than on-board nuclear reactors.

Especially since (please see Q&A-5) BMW was able to tweak its automobile engines to run on either gasoline or hydrogen depending on what was available at the moment/locality – so one would think that BMW engineers could easily tweak jet engines to run on either AvJet (aka kerosene) or hydrogen.

Question 8

Did Proton Technologies (an Alberta Canada corporation) announce 8/19/2019 that it had developed AND PATENTED a way to extract hydrogen from crude oil, tar sands and bitumen coal while leaving in the ground the carbon that they contain?

Answer 8

Yes.

Question 9

Would the new technology be economical?

Answer 9

So Proton Technologies Corporation claims.

Though their claim seems to be based on a comparison with existing methods of obtaining hydrogen (e.g., electrolysis of water: 2H2O > 2H2 + O2).

But who knows whether it would be a cheaper fuel than oil & gas products (please see Q&A-10 & Q&A-11).

Question 10

If economical, would the new technology threaten the value of all the YEARS of already “proved oil and gas reserves” of the world’s largest oil & gas exporters – for example, No. 1 exporter Saudi Arabia’s 69.96 years’ worth of already “proved reserves”?

Answer 10

Yes.

Question 11

Might Saudi Arabia be tempted to protect the value of its 69.96 years’ worth of “proved oil & gas reserves” by buying either the technology or the stock of Proton Technologies – AND KILLING THE TECHNOLOGY?

Answer 11

Yes.

After all, Saudi production costs were only a few cents per barrel back in the 1970’s (which in 2019 dollars would be less than 1 cent/gallon of refined product) when Yours Truly was the Senior Tax Attorney and Director of Tax Planning for Texaco Inc. when it was still a Fortune-Ten company and, together with its Aramco partners (Chevron, Exxon and Mobil), owned 100% of the oil & gas in Saudi.

Admittedly, production costs may have increased as less-economical reservoirs entered production.

But presumably there would be considerable economic power to buy out the new hydrogen technology in order to kill it.

Question 12

Even if the shareholders of Proton Technologies have led heretofore the most exemplary lives featuring impeccable morals, doesn’t “everything have its price”???

Answer 12

Please read on.

Question 13

After all, didn’t one of Christ’s 12 Disciples (11 of whom became Saints) betray Him for “thirty pieces of silver”???

Answer 13

Yes.

Question 14

And didn’t Bill Lear (creator of the Lear Jet, the first successful business jet which is a familiar sight at airports around the world, and inventor of more than 100 essential devices that are still in use today, such as the airplane autopilot) spend approximately $200 million (in 2019 dollars) to develop a steam car in the late 1960’s to eliminate 99% of the particulate pollution of internal combustion engines???

Answer 14

Yes.

Question 15

And didn’t Bill Lear contract with the California Highway Patrol to put his steam engines into all of their patrol cars???

Answer 15

Yes.

Question 16

And wasn’t Bill Lear destined to make good his “guarantee” to win the Indy 500 because steam cars could be building up a head of steam during the Indy 500’s two 180-degree turns so that, coming out of the turns, their acceleration would NOT be “engine limited” like conventional race cars – but only limited by the ability of the tires to grip the racing surface???

Answer 16

So it would appear.

Question 17

Were rumors rife at the time that General Motors bought out Bill Lear’s steam-car project for an amount many times his investment – AND THEN KILLED IT???

Answer 17

Yes.

Question 18

Did Bill Lear ever run for U.S. President so that he was forced to release his tax returns so that we will ever know for sure whether the rumors were true???

Answer 18

Yes, we will never be able to verify that the rumors were true.

Question 19

If Bill Lear’s “immortality” had a price and Judas Iscariot had a price for betraying Christ, how can anyone rest assured that the Proton Technologies patents (or the Proton Technologies stock) will not be sold to a malefactor that wants to kill the technology???

Answer 19

What do you think??? Let’s discuss!!!

Question 20

Are our Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail campaigns to American or world decision makers designed so that, with only a few computer keyboard key strokes, they can be sent by each of our members (1) to the decision maker(s), and (2) to all of the member's friends and acquaintances requesting them to do the same in an unending chain?

Answer 20

Yes.

Question 21

Are all 42 e-mail campaigns over our 14 years of existence posted in the Section 1 of http://www.ReadingLiberally-SaltLake.org?

Answer 21

Yes.

Question 22

Have many of them been surprisingly effective because we have developed such a reputation that we are regularly quoted (without attribution) in the media and decision makers quickly learn about our campaigns even if there are junior interns on their staffs whose job is to trash all incoming e-mails?

Answer 22

Yes.

Question 23

Do we have such an e-mail campaign proposal for the current imbroglio?

Answer 23

Yes.

Question 24

Is there a “Patent Cooperation Treaty” (“PCT”) which has 192 country participants and which is administered by the United Nation’s World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) with headquarters in Geneva?

Answer 24

Yes.

Question 25

Would it be practical to direct one of our Six-Degrees-Of-Separation E-mail campaigns to TWO U.N. Officials instead of only one decision maker – in this case to the Director General of the U.N.’s WIPO and to the Under-Secretary General of the U.N. for the Environment (who also heads UNEP)?

Answer 25

Yes.

Question 26

Would the campaign implore the two U.N. officials (1) to seek an amendment to the Patent Cooperation Treaty to treat as void any patent issued to a malefactor who wants to kill the new technology; and (2) to encourage each of the 192 PCT member countries to amend their own country patent laws to treat as void any patent issued to a malefactor who wants to kill the new technology?

Answer 26

Yes.

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