Closest naturally occuring source: The Sun
Have fun retreiveing it, don't forget the coppertone.
I pray its true.
There is NOTHING I would love more than to see the tiny state of Israel come up with a way to make a large portion of the oil the arabs have completely USELESS!
Hahahahaha!
“provides important steps in overcoming this challenge”
People have been making “important steps” in this field for a couple decades...
If people think the A-rabs want to destroy Israel because of so-called "Palestinians," or because they are Joooooos, just wait until they start producing hydrogen from water!
ML/NJ
Hydrogen fires, as from a leak from a cryogenic H2 tank or a fuel cell are incredibly nasty. The flame is hot and barely visible. H2 is no panacea. Properly used, fine, but lots of engineering needed.
If only the stimulus plan was building nuclear plants, we would have the energy needed to make such fuels in mass. It would be a lot better than wasting it on unproven technologies.
>Hydrogen fuel sells
Hydrogen fuel cells, maybe?
Or are we talking a marketing gimmick?
When oxygen and hydrogen combine (burn, explode), energy is released. When water is broken up into hydrogen and oxygen that same amount of energy must be put into the reaction.
The article mentions a “thermal and light driven process”. Thermal energy means something like coal, nuclear, or solar heat. Light-driven would mean the sun as in photovoltaic or photosynthetic. The first two sources are disliked by the environmentalists. Solar heat aht the last two have low energy density meaning it would take many square miles of collectors to produce a respectable amount of hydrogen fuel.
Nevertheless these guys might have a useful idea.
>n these cells Hydrogen is consumed by a pollution-free chemical reaction, not combustion. So the fuel cell simply combines hydrogen and oxygen chemically to produce electricity, water, and waste heat.
That IS combustion, the burning/oxidizing of Hydrogen. This reporter lacks a basic understanding of chemestry, and proofreading.
Somewhere an editor is out of work.
Interesting line of research but I don’t know enough to comment any further.
Cheers!
It is relatively easy to turn hydrogen into clean energy. The problem is getting clean energy in order to to make hydrogen.
OK. If I understand this correctly, my vehicle's fuel will have to be generated in a "closed" system to contain the fuel, but will have to be generated in an "open" system so that the 3rd stage can be completed. That is, unless a flashlight will suffice. Then my key-ring flashlight can be connected through an O-ring into the "closed" fuel generator.
Now I have to figure out how many batteries I have to keep on hand.
IAC, I'm trying to avoid even thinking about the net efficiency of the reversion of the 500 lbs (?) of the metal complex to it's original state so that I won't have to haul a trailer full of the stuff for replacement.
I'm really encouraged. Got to try to figure how much H2 will be needed to run a Ford 350 hauling whatever.
Meamwhile an islam-a-nazi yoot-groupe has developed a new blade sharpening technique that keeps the blade sharp even after cutting through tough neck-bones so that more beheadings can be done between sharpenings and the arms won’t get so tired./sarc