How many new nuclear reactors should we build to create this super clean fuel?
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Hydrogen is not well suited to being in a tank. Petroleum engineers deal with this in their distillation plant designs.
They should use helium instead of hydrogen to reduce the risk of fire.
Nope. This new energy kills off the three-toed endangered cardinal. That’ll be the pretext of why it can’t be used. Technology that helps all of mankind will never be developed, because the elites want us begging them for scraps of food and permission to travel.
Before we all get too worked up, let's pause a moment in remembrance of the Hindenburg. Remember, a tank of hydrogen can also be described as a potential bomb.
It will still be hard to keep the tiny molecule from leaking out at the fitting in the fuel system. And you’ve still got to make the stuff, there aren’t any hydrogen wells. I haven’t seen anyone ramping up nuclear plant construction.
Liquid hydrogen has a higher energy density than jet fuel by weight, but lower by volume.
Last I checked, hydrogen has 3 times the energy content of gasoline.
My understanding is that hydrogen does not just come out of a well like natural gas. Its must be converted from hydro carbons. So depending on the conversion costs and pollution out put it may not make much difference.
However my understanding of such things is limited.
and where will all of that hydrogen come from? and what are the net energy losses from producing it, compressing it to liquefy it, and then transporting liquid hydrogen?
Hydrogen is not a fuel. Hydrogen is an energy storage medium.
Hydrogen is a good way to store energy from intermittent electric sources like windmills and solar panels.
Hydrogen is dangerously flammable and helium replaced it for lighter-than-air aircraft for that reason.
Hydrogen has a lot of potential as fuel (pun intended). The problem is transporting hydrogen to where it’s needed. Because the molecule is so much smaller leakage is a problem and there’s also hydrogen embrittlement to contend with.
Storage in metal hydrides is one soluton, but for aircraft that always return to specific locations, on-site hydrogen plants could generate the fuel on-site, as needed. That would eliminate transport concerns and once production was scaled to match consumption, minimal storage would be needed which minimizes boomablility.
The issue for passenger cars is more complex but truck fleets such as FedEx or WalMart trucks that operate out of a specific hub location would be feasible for on-site hydrogen production. All it takes is natural gas and we have lots of that and it can safely be transported.
Will it make the plane float ? LOL
Just watch that spark in the center full tank.
I was once thing of setting up an electrolysis apparatus in my vehicle to split the H2O molecules into hydrogen & oxygen then feed that into the fuel/air mixture for greatly increased mileage, but some of those doing that on YouTube said it didn’t quite work as well as expected. You need much greater quantities of hydrogen than could easily be produced on such a small scale apparatus like that to really make it worthwhile.
HyPoint makes further advancements in hydrogen flight technology:
https://evtol.com/news/hypoint-makes-further-advancements-in-hydrogen-flight-technology/
Hydrogen Fuel News:
https://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/
It takes energy to make hydrogen so where is this extra electrical energy coming from and how much does it take to make a cubic liter? Not to mention going boom at first hint of a spark.
As I recall, gasoline is far more energy dense than hydrogen.