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Hey everyone ... Prion- how the heck can a chem get all its hydrogen needs from AIR? ... it can't be more than a few tenths of a percent in the air (to maintain the ecosphere ... or ecocylinder, as it were, the air composition couldn't deviate too significantly from earth's) ... and it looks like this English problem has been put pretty much to rest. thanks for all your input, you guys (man I hate to be cowed ... ) last call ... any ideas on how the whorl powers itself? A New Question: In Calde, Quetzal mentions that he's done his all he could to ensure that theophanies stop occurring in Viron ... I never really understood why ... does it get explained elsewhere in an oblique manner ... or not at all? Later ... /\/\ Greg Neyman Greg.Neyman at gte.net ___/____\___ http://www.trailerpark.com/siesta/thehat/ |HE HA| *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

The classic SF trope is getting hydrogen from electrolysis of water, so I imagine Prion is refering to water vapor in the air. "Humid weather today. Yum!" -- Hammerstone -Rostrum *This is WHORL, for discussion of Gene Wolfe's Book of the Long Sun.

For my money, not at all, and Quetzal's motivations as the (maybe) benevolent vampire will presumably be explained in Short Sun... Didn't Wolfe say as much in the Q&A session some time ago?