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To: kauaiboy
Hydrogen is a good renewable fuel that noone is talking about

No one is talking about it, because it is not a fuel --unless you consider hydrogen bound to carbon -- which everyone has been talking about for a very long time. There is no free hydrogen anywhere on earth, so it must be reduced from somewhere else. Since it must be reduced before it can be oxidized, it is not a fuel; just a storage medium. As a storage medium it is problematic: it's far more dangerous than gasoline or diesel, and since it is an oxidizer itself, it presents serious problems with most metal uses. Unless you're burning uranium to produce hydrogen by electrolysis, it makes more sense to just oxidize hydrogen from hydrocarbons at the point of generation in the first place.

39 posted on 08/14/2008 8:32:19 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Not coincidentally, the people pushing hydrogen technology have day jobs where they drill for oil.)
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To: FredZarguna

hydrogen is very SIMPLE

I can put a BOX in your house and plug it in, plug it into your car, and you can run your car

hydrogen very clearly works

and please name for me the fuel with the HIGHEST ENERGY DENSITY __________________________

name me the fuel that propels the space shuttle________

name for me some other “alternative” or renewable fuel (ie on the scale that we currently use JP4) with enough ENERGY DESNITY (kJ/ kG) to power JET AIRCRAFT

I am awaiting your answers

_____________________


44 posted on 08/19/2008 7:53:35 PM PDT by kauaiboy (when the good men do nothing the evil democommieislamists win)
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