lets deplete the worlds water . No one knows where it came from or how to produce more of it, and water is the most precious substance on earth and the least respected. But since we are so much smarter than nature and so far above nature, let's outsmart the laws of physics and destroy our beautiful blue planet and turn it "green" so the idealists can feel good about themselves
How stupid do they think I am?
Cobalt mainly comes from the Congo, and is 80% controlled by China. Good luck scaling this boondoggle up to commercial production without paying through the nose for the “green hydrogen.”
How stupid do they think I am?
Now, just need a cheap and easy way to store the hydrogen... Perhaps we could combine it with carbon...
I'll probably be in production in about 2 weeks.
The new extraction process is described as a more efficient means of electrolysis, which has been around for ages for splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen.
The water molecule can’t be split into hydrogen without supplying energy. It’s the opposite of burning hydrogen as a fuel which releases energy and produces harmless water.
The long-term plan seems to be that solar cells can be used to run the electrolysis and create hydrogen, which can be stored and distributed to fueling sites for hydrogen-powered vehicles.
Process requires Cobalt.
here’s the world’s top sources of Cobalt:
Democratic Republic of Congo. Mine production: 130,000 MT. ...
Russia. Mine production: 8,900 MT. ...
Australia. Mine production: 5,900 MT. ...
Canada. Mine production: 3,900 MT. ...
Philippines. Mine production: 3,800 MT. ...
Cuba. Mine production: 3,800 MT. ...
Papua New Guinea. ...
Madagascar.
And China either owns outright or controls most of the Cobalt mines in the Congo.
Interesting, but this will not overcome the laws of thermal dynamics.
The hydrogen fuel cycle is less than 50% efficient, meaning that given 1 unit of electrical power used to create hydrogen, you get less than 50% of the work done with even the most efficient hydrogen fuel technologies. Stated another way, you get less than half the work done as you would have gotten if just using the electricity to run an electric motor directly.
Most all hydrogen generated today is a bi-product of petroleum refining, FYI.
Hydrogen has other big problems, too. It goes boom, boom. Remember the Hindenburg? Hydrogen atoms are so tiny it leaks out of containment vessels very easily. When it mixes with other gasses it becomes highly corrosive, as well.
Look at the names of the researchers...
“by Lina Chong, Guoping Gao, Jianguo Wen, Haixia Li, Haiping Xu, Zach Green, Joshua D. Sugar, A. Jeremy Kropf, Wenqian Xu, Xiao-Min Lin, Hui Xu, Lin-Wang Wang and Di-Jia Liu,”
More Fake News from the government. All of the words in it are probably true, but it fails to emphasize that even if the electrolyzing process could get to be 100% efficient, you still get no more energy from burning the hydrogen than it took to extract it. They’ll never get close to 100%. Even then, you also will always get way less after it’s extracted it due to compressing, storing, delivering it to the user, and using it as an energy source.