Posted on 09/14/2021 7:28:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
Then, add to this the myriad of problems that using hydrogen creates:
Heavy and large storage tanks
Embrittlement of metal distribution pipes
Low energy density
Inability to liquify
Leakage due to small molecular size
Very high storage pressures
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🐙🐌🍻. Making me hungry now dang it.
I’m 110% sure you are correct
However, this sounds like a win-win for the eco-whack jobs. Clean energy and by using seawater it will reduce the rise of the oceans which is a byproduct of AGW. /s
Butt, butt, butt zero carbon. Well except making EVERYTHING to make EVERY component. Other than that, yeah.
Well, all of that is true!
ALL THEY NEED TO DO IS ADD SOME CARBON ATOMS TO THE HYDROGEN ATOMS, HOPEFULLY IN LONG CHAINS AND RINGS, AND THOSE PROBLEMS WILL BE SOLVED!...............
You mean there really is no such thing as a free lunch? drat.
Agreed. Plus, you will have the environ-weenies and the fossil fuel industry fighting such tech. Then you have the distribution system that would need the gas companies to convert, and who owns the existing pipelines? Plus, are hydrogen fuel cells perfected and economical for vehicles? Real question.
Also, as pointed out above, desalination/filtering plants would have to be built.
How long before the Chicoms steal this technology?
I think the best way for a hydrogen economy is to split seawater to hydrogen and oxygen, but use genetically-engineered kelp plants to create gaseous nodules of hydrogen for harvesting. Use sunlight/photosynthesis.
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He received his doctorate in materials science from Tsinghua University in China.
I saw how the eco-wack jobs in Maine some 20 years or so ago.
They pushed hard for wind power. And anyone who opposed wind projects were reactionaries under the thumb of the fossil fuel industry.
So, wind mills started to be built-some were fairly large projects funded with private investment funds. And yes you guessed it; the eco-wack jobs started to complain about these projects. It is a no-win position with these leftists.
I also wonder why hydrogen would be better than natural gas to your stove and other applications. I also asked above, are hydrogen fuel cells for vehicles safe and economical? And what about petroleum by-products that are used in countless every day products. You probably have dozens of products in your own home. Think plastic to start.
No, they’ll capture the O2. Hospitals need it for all the ventilators for Covid-x patients.
And of course they have competition for that resource from Elon Musk who needs LOX to keep the rockets flying.
Read the names.... While the rest of the world is producing STEM geniuses the dumbed down brainwashed clowns with “American” names are going to college to become environmental lawyers and gender queer studies.
You're certainly correct that seawater has a myriad of mineral salts in it but AFAIK magnesium metal and sodium chloride salt via evaporation are about the only inorganics commercially obtained from seawater. Other inorganics are not economically recoverable, again AFAIK. I've been away from the state of the art in this for quite a time.
Trivia! The gargantuan Dow Chemical chemical complex in Freeport, TX started up in 1940. Not one but two duplicate complexes were built in 18 months including sea walls and a 5-mile barge canal to Plant B. It had the same priorities for funding and resources as the Manhattan Project, which led to the nuclear bomb. Plant A is on the coast adjacent to the harbor and Plant B is about 5 miles inland. Plant B was insurance as it was out of range of deck guns on WWII German submarines. Primary products were magnesium, chlorine, sodium hydroxide and epoxy. Magnesium for flares and incendiaries, chlorine and caustic for explosives and epoxy for Bakelite (ex. aircraft dash panels).
I just retired from teaching for over 30 years at the Maritime College in Maine. We graduate engineers with plenty of hands-on practical training. Also, we graduate students who major in international business and logistics, with an emphasis on logistics and supply chain management. The students in our hands-on programs are usually employed before they graduate or within 30 days after.
“Then there is the problem with the hydrogen fuel cells in vehicles. I’m not sure if that has been perfected as yet.”
An on-demand system would nix the fuel cell.
How much power does it take to accomplish the split? Will the cost be prohibitive?
Ok, from what I’m reading they built a better electrolysis plate. However, the energy deficit will be the larger problem. You have to input energy to run electrolysis. Where’s that energy come from?
That is what the environ-weenies and politicians never realize or ignore.
E-Cat......................
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