Posted on 05/20/2025 5:56:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
Yes. They all should rewatch the Hindenburg fire. Hydrogen is a very clean fuel. But it has very low energy density and it’s hard as hell to keep it from leaking. There are serious safety concerns that would need to be addressed
Agree. I've looked into using hydrogen to power a fuel-cell as a backup generator. That wouldn't be burning, but would be clean (water byproduct).
I've thought about it, but it would be too expensive, to have an electrolyzer powered by my home solar after my batteries are charged and I still have excess solar coming in. The idea would be to generate hydrogen gas, have that stored in a tank away from the house (perhaps in the ground), then when my solar inverters need power for the home and my batteries are drained, run the fuel cell to generate power from hydrogen before giving up and pulling power from the grid (which adds to my power bill).
What it would do for me is store energy long term to help get through winter months (unlike battery power which degrades if stored more than a couple of days). But it'd be expensive, and my power bills now already average less than $78/month (for an all-electric house, including charging the EV for 1,500 miles/month).
Yes they would and it would be easy. The product of using hydrogen as energy is water vapor, the number one so called greenhouse gas.
It’s also found in jet contrails, or chemtrails, whichever. We’re doomed!
>> and when you take this supposed pure clean hydrogen from the earth, what are you going to make with it? <<
Water. Don’t you remember the first thing about chemistry class?
That said, it seems like a huge leap from identifying a way hydrogen could be produced to saying there’s 170,000 years worth of hydrogen fuel waiting for us somewhere.
So cool it. Duh.
One word……Hindenburg. If you think a gasoline or propane tanker splodin is bad, the public ain’t seen nothing yet.
and the oceans of the world contain 20 million tons of gold ...
The left would say we are stealing the hydrogen from the humans of 170,000 years from now.
-PJ
Natural Hydrogen trapped under the earths crust is GOOD
Natural gas trapped under the earths crust is BAD
The Hindenburg is BACK, BABY!!!
Strap one on and float down the street! Weeeee..bang.
False, water will be emitted. I'm sure that will be declared a pollutant presently.
Except that the cost is bazillions of dollars.
Truer word never spoken.
“and when you take this supposed pure clean hydrogen from the earth, what are you going to make with it?”
ENERGY!
“If hydrogen is used to power vehicles, there will be a tank in which the hydrogen is kept under very high pressure. Has anyone thought about what will happen when the vehicle collides with a bridge or another vehicle? Will the pressurized hydrogen be suddenly released from the tank? How much of it will catch fire?”
Obviously you haven’t ...
That is because according to greenie mythology there is only one... in the village of Bourakebougou in Mali, Africa. But the details of this are a little sketchy and available almost exclusively from lefty publications...
This is a more a, "I'll believe it when I actually see it." type of situation.
“when you take this supposed pure clean hydrogen from the earth, what are you going to make with it?”
The idea is to burn it to produce heat to drive turbines for electric power generation, isn’t it?
Problem with hydrogen is storage and transportation.
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