I was sitting alone in my living room watching the C-SPAN network showing the senators & representatives supposedly representing us in our country’s needs on our behalf. But while watching either C-SPAN or C-SPAN2 both sides of our congress was simply beating each other up using words of course, but never the less, still not doing anything about what concerns most of us ordinary people meaning the extremely high prices we pay for both food and any other type of energy such as gas and electricity. I wonder if there is any kind of hope left for those of us surviving on less than $15,000 a year total income. In congress they speak of the “middle class” and that is fine, but what about those of us not there?

1. I suggest that more effort go into some of the lesser mentioned biodiversified sources for ethanol such as kudsu vines growing wild all over the southern states as well as any green vegetation leaving the corn and other consumer crops for food.
2. Start a program using federal and local monies to invest in all forms of rooftop solar production of electricity on private citizens properties if the citizen chooses to participate for a reduction in their electrical costs each month. Some of this could be achieved by setting up a nonprofit Non Governmental Organization to oversee the deployment of such technologies.
3. Investigate the floor of the Gulf of Mexico for any purposeful capping of some wells not in use but are never the less there but capped. Some of the oil companies have been known to drill 12 wells and use only 1 for production.
4. Invest government funds heavily into the pure fuel cell for both vehicular and home use to power all electrical appliances and vehicles. I recently read that the Japanese manufacturer Honda produced a prototype vehicle featuring a pure fuel cell vehicle. If they can do this why can’t our engineers do it? The only differences are the applications and other possible uses there would be.

The open letter has four points outlined and three of them are current application of existing technologies. The fourth one requires someone much smarter than I to achieve but very much within reach. I will elaborate this much however, by taking what would be considered the exhaust on the fuel cell, which consists of mist and water, and directing it into a hydrogen extractor to separate the oxygen from the hydrogen in a “closed loop system”. At this point it has been separated into pure oxygen in one place and hydrogen in another place ready to go into the fuel cell again to produce power on a virtual endless basis until the hydrogen is turned off by a valve or otherwise exhausted.

These are my thoughts on how this all could possibly work on the final point.

Imagine, a total hydrogen society with absolutely no pollution produced.

I am sure there are many other ideas out there but after watching our congress at work I think they need much more help to get the point. I hope this open letter finds its way to some one who may use the ideas expressed here to do some good where it may make some kind of difference.