Word: hydrogenate
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...with the detail. Even if you knew with certainty that a "Long Boom" was in the cards, you could still get hurt by the short busts between now and then. Equally frustrating, he throws up all manner of potential fuel sources for the automobile of 2015 - anyone for electric, hydrogen cells or natural-gas turbines? - without picking a likely winner. "Whatever the ultimate fuel source becomes," he writes, "we can be certain that it will be green." Well, thanks. That's about as useful as the horoscope that says: "You will have a meaningful encounter with someone you know." This...
...Congress is about to enact yet another doomed energy policy that promises more of the same. Take hydrogen. Ideally, the gas would be extracted from water using fusion technology. But that won't be available for decades. In the interim, a substitute energy source would be used--natural gas. Yes, the same natural gas already in short supply...
...solar is hardly the only alternative energy source that has failed to live up to the promises of its congressional supporters. Just as both parties have embraced President Bush's hydrogen initiative, they have also signed on to another of his long-shot proposals, one he says will provide "clean, safe, renewable and commercially available fusion energy by the middle of this century." Unlike nuclear fission, the splitting of uranium atoms that powers nuclear reactors, fusion joins hydrogen atoms to unleash far more energy. The trick is to control the fusion reaction to generate electricity. It has been an elusive...
...nutritionists, who know all fats are not created equal, that's good news. Unsaturated fats (those that are liquid at room temperature and contain fewer hydrogen atoms) are comparatively benign, but saturated fats (solid at room temperature with bonds filled, or saturated, with hydrogen) are notorious artery cloggers...
...1980s foodmakers began replacing "sat fats" with trans-fatty acids--unsaturated oils to which hydrogen has been added. This made the oils thick enough to use in baked products and margarine, gave packaged foods a longer shelf life and made all foods safer--or so it was thought. The new stuff was not listed as a fat, but if you saw a "hydrogenated" oil on an ingredient list, a trans fat is what...