Thus, it doesn’t actually need to replace ALL of the diesel in ‘first world’ countries, and instead, skip the conversion process all together, and just use the Hydrogen directly for fuel cells or electrical generation for electric or plug-in hybrid cars.

Point is… zoom back from the diesel.

With that, if it cleans the environment, increases crop yields, AND produces a form of energy that can ADD to our demand for it (ie, not replace it), then .. is that such a bad thing?

Could this not supply the hydrogen than it can, and then the rest of the hydrogen is made from other ‘green’ forms of energy; wind, solar, tidal, etc?

Does it need to replace it entirely? I think we’ve seen what happens when a peoples (read: planet) becomes too dependent on energy from one source.

We still have not gotten off the dime in making this technology what it should be because the elite do not want to be bothered with things that will take control out of their hands (at least in the USA).

So it is up to the small farmer to make sure that they understand this technology and get it into their communities at a scale that the regulators can not stop them. As the oil peak takes hold these enclaves will be able to function while the rest of society flounders.

Instead of watching the auto industry fall apart in the USA we should be assigning them the task of mass producing small units to be sold with their cars to use the house hold waste and yard wastes to run their cars as well as coming up with 150mpg engines.

Some of the energy could be used during the day to produce local electricity and liquid fuels at night. Coal systems meed to be scaled back as fast possible so that the 14 hrs per day when the demand for power is low most of the generation can be shut down.

The time has come to stop thinking that things are going to be a carbon copy of the past fifty years – just get over it!

Nature’s only silver bullet is sunlight and biodiversity provides it with advantages we are only beginning to tap as we move from through the embryonic growth of the petroleum age.

This challenge represents a doorway to stable energy and agriculure. Technically it is accomplished through increasing efficiency in all areas of human activity as well as incorporating external costs of inefficiancy and GHG gas emissions output (read as non-utilization inefficiency). The use of economic drivers effects the planning of corporations and familiy budgets, but mostly it begins to change the thoughts we teach our children. What we teach we learn.

We have an opportunity to become an integral symbiotic part of nature’s design but it takes a release of the judgements we place on the humankind and on our selves, as they limit us in the scope of we can create. What we face is not that to be feared, no more than we fear the fuel gage of our auto. In this case though it is a feedback mechanism of our own development. If we see each other as takers rather than givers, we create from fear and see a dim future. If we see billions of bright minds rapidly learning and discovering secrets of the universe; working from a paradaigm of collaborative abundance to create and give each other a sustainable future, we see hope.
The future does not come at the choice of governments or corporations…it is your choice…our choice. What future do you/we wish to give those who share our world?

As we come to an agreement on a future we wish to give, the fuel gage will move away from empty and our lives will be filled with purpose.