Posted on 08/19/2019 5:20:04 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
Oil fields, even abandoned oil fields, still contain significant amounts of oil. The researchers have found that injecting oxygen into the fields raises the temperature and liberates H2, which can them be separated from other gases via specialist filters. Hydrogen is not pre-existing in the reservoirs, but pumping oxygen means that the reaction to form hydrogen can take place.
"This technique can draw up huge quantities of hydrogen while leaving the carbon in the ground. When working at production level, we anticipate we will be able to use the existing infrastructure and distribution chains to produce H2 for between 10 and 50 cents per kilo. This means it potentially costs a fraction of gasoline for equivalent output". This compares with current H2 production costs of around $2/kilo. Around 5% of the H2 produced then powers the oxygen production plant, so the system more than pays for itself.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
I saw an interesting sign near the liquid hydrogen storage facility at the George C. Marshal Space Flight Center: "Warning! No smoking. Violators will be vaporized."
Ever heard of RP1?
Missing word?
Most assuredly YES!
COOL, is the missing word.
I was fascinated by the system and read all the literature that came with it and the website.
Lasers and mirrors, the beams zigzagging over a large open bay. The building, about 40,000 sq ft was divided into multiple zones.
IIRC, hydrogen changes the beam scatter?
I’ve been retired for about ten years(some claim many more) and the detector was installed five years before(?).
Probably available at garage sales and ebay!
I should install one in the garage in case the car or motorcycle batteries overcharge and pump out dangerous hydrogen gas!!!
They will surely bitch about water vapor being worse than CO2 once hydrogen vehicles are implemented.
I once saw a hydrogen fuel demonstration with an internal combustion engine.
Water dripped out of the cold exhaust, the salesman captured a few drops and drank it!!!
Unsure what type of engine oil they used, but everyone that I have experienced tasted like shite!
Hoping it was not castor oil?
A super lubricant but...
May have been a retired Ginsu salesman?
“Warning! No smoking. Violators will be vaporized.”
Wishing I’d seen that before retirement!
Perfect for the hydrogen shed!
We had 1,000 PSI hydrogen everywhere and for some work boosted to the moon and beyond.
Sadly the PC Police took over the last few years and such a warning sign would have been grounds for termination.
I would have printed it anyway and only shown it to my people.
Thanks!
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