I came up with this in the '90s.
That line alone keeps this out of News/Activism. Worth filing away in the old memory banks, however.
Hydrogen one explosive element that only needs a dull glow to ignite!
Oxygen one of 3 elements required for fire.
Put em together and they are required to sustain life, and put out fires. Yep it's a created universe!
From a purely technical standpoint, I remember the late Paul Harvey talk about this on one of his radio spots. And didn’t some guy in Florida come up with a way of breaking down water into its base elements for welding? I think he even came before congress and the military was interested.
In other words, is this really a new discovery?
Might be useful in sunny, remote locations to have local energy generation. If the cost of fuel has to go “way up”, it is not a large scale solution.
Any process used to split water into O2 and hydrogen requires input of energy. The energy will be more than can be recovered by recombining O2 and hydrogen. Hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not an energy source.
This should be good for getting multi-billions of dollars from the gov’t.
The problem I see with liquid hydrogen is not in producing it, but in holding onto it. If you remember the Shuttle, you would note that they had to continue filling the liquid hydrogen tanks until minutes before the launch. this was because even in the heavily insulated external tank, the hydrogen was constantly boiling off.
Regarding the picture. How do they get the sun to shine on all 360 degrees?
Oh, another, more serious thought.
To create that kind of solar heat consistently enough to make it worthwhile, I would suspect you would have to built these things in the desert. You know, the places where water is scarce. So, seems like you’d have to have a massive pipeline built or expensive deep wells. This would require a huge infrastructure any way you look at it.