Yeah hydrogen!!!
Ping.
Democrats will still want to tax the crap out of it.
otoh its worth trying to figure out.
Not being a chemist sort I’m wondering about the costs of the oxygen to liberate the hydrogen.
That is great news, although I may have heard of this being done before on a small scale. If the technique is indeed affordable and basic, this could benefit parts of Africa.
They could do it themselves, not stay under Chinese influence for almost everything. China takes a high percentage of certain elements from Africa, such as Cobalt. So what if the Africans need 7 y/o children to go underground and assist with most of the mining whether they want to or not? Egypt, are you paying attention too?
Hydrogen burning internal combustion engines create WATER VAPOR as the exhaust.
What is the most effective greenhouse gas? Oh yeah, WATER VAPORS.
CO2 is 4 hundredths of one percent of our atmosphere, and plays no role is temperature change. Water vapor does.
The lefts biggest problem with oil - beyond even the misguided emphasis on carbon - is that it allows folk to use the energy.
If they were at all serious about AGW, they’d be hung ho for nuclear power. Instead they really just want pain.
but with no pollution problems
I'm sure the greens will complain about dihydrogen monoxide poisoning...
“Pollution free” eh?
So, the process requires no external energy?
“The researchers have found that injecting oxygen into the fields raises the temperature and liberates H2, which can then be separated from other gases via specialist filters. Hydrogen is not pre-existing in the reservoirs, but pumping oxygen means that the reaction to form hydrogen can take place. “
un huh.
and where does the pure O2 come from? oh, yeah, hydrolysis which uses expensive ELECTRICITY to split H2O into O2 and H2 ...
thus, once again, we see the dying lying leftist fake stream enemedia promoting pie-in-the-sky pipe dreams that don’t pass the basic high-school physics and chemistry test ...
Yeah hydrogen!!!
1 cubic ft of hydrogen = 325 btu’s of heat available
1 gallon of #2 fuel oil = 138,500 btu’s of heat available.
I gallon is about .133 cubic feet.
so 1 cubic ft of hydrogen = 325 btu’s
1 cubic ft of fuel oil = 1,041,353 btu’s
This is why hydrogen isn’t a viable fuel for general purpose use. Either you compress hydrogen, then burn a lot fast to get the energy out of it ( rocket engines) or you burn oil at ambient pressure and get a lot of energy for the volume consumed. One is a lot safer.
Whatever happened to making it from water and DC electricity? Solar panels and a water source would be almost free after paying for the solar panels.
The fact that the hydrogen for hydrogen fueled cars is coming from petrochemicals has got to be killing the greenie weenies.
CC
It may work. But hydrogen leaks the walls of the pipes , and even more through joints and welds that oil and natural gas are well-sealed by.
from the article: “This technique can draw up huge quantities of hydrogen while leaving the carbon in the ground.”
The hydrogen is almost certainly coming from the cleavage of carbon-hydrogen bonds in hydrocarbons in the ground, and the unaddressed question is what happens to the carbon? Does it end up as CO2 (which can ultimately leach out)? Or does the carbon end up in some other form - that’s a pretty fundamental consideration, and it’s odd, at least to me, that it remains unaddressed (or if addressed, unstated).
Hydrogen? One word: Hindenburg.
It’ll never “get there”.
The (inaptly) named SunCell (tm) is a MUCH safer approach AND runs on trace quantities of water (extracting the H2 as needed.) This a MUCH SAFER approach as opposed to HYDROGEN TRANSPORT as others have pointed out ...
AS anyone who follows Thunderf00t on Youtube knows, he fears ‘free Hydrogen’ in a lab MORE than anything else on account of its “explosiveness”.