Revolution Watch US Energy security Council Revisited

I can't resist taking a look at one additional presentation that came up at a round table put on by the Energy Security Council. As I stated previously, there were many aspects of this get-together that I thought stunk to high heavens, I mean, they made no sense. Did anyone offer one ounce of doubt on any of this BS?

I made a brief mention of a presentation and some hoopla  that was made over this person who had been manufacturing methane in Iceland. They went to quite an effort to feature him as some sort of hero and I couldn't figure out why. They all seemed to be in a lather as if this methane was the future and the jest of the meeting was on this magical new fuel.

The dude who made the methane said he did it by taking the over-abundant CO2 out of the air and combing it with hydrogen and he got methane. Wow, what a deal. We need to get rid of CO2 as it is causing global warming and hydrogen is in water, so bingo we can just put them together and we have all of our energy needs met and the CO2 will go away and the earth will be saved.

Something didn't make sense here. First off, lets say we do make some magic methane ( It can be done and is being done), we are still going turn right around and burn it for energy----and then once again release the CO2 into the atmosphere. Yes methane is cleaner than gasoline, but still is a hydrocarbon. What the hell kind of circular deal is that?

There is even a bigger catch. Hydrogen does not exist as a free element, it has to be produced by splitting it off water (or natural gas) and to do that, the process of hydrolysis has to be used. That takes electric ENERGY. What is the source of electricity--COAL fired Plants, Natural Gas plants and Nuclear plants. The  elements then have to be put together. Throw in the second law of thermodynamics and it is real obvious that as we move form one form of energy to another and we lose energy---entropy. It is a lose--lose deal and here we have these big folluting yahoos grinning ear to ear over this methane diatribe. Give me a break. Jesus, do we have a long way to go to get where we need to go!