I didn’t know about hydrogen and its need to be super-chilled, which probably explains the brittleness of metal comment. I know in high school, I put an electric current on a copper plate and the bubbles where hydrogen that we captured and lit. The result was a “pop” and a small amount of pure water. I thought the idea was to put windmills out in the ocean, use the electricity to perform electrolysis, and pump the hydrogen to shore in pipelines for processing and distribution. Still, it does seem to be yet another waste of taxpayer money.
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If we could just find a way to pipe hydrogen from the Sun, that would make GH profitable.
If those people studied real science, they would easily get the facts.
1) There is no free hydrogen on Earth. All hydrogen is tied up in rocks, water or hydrocarbons.
2) To break these ties, you need an energy. At least, theoretically, as much energy as you get back. So making hydrogen from water cannot ever give you any net energy, if you burn hydrogen back to water!
3) They actually make hydrogen cheaper, by striping it from hydrocarbons, but then you waste the full hydrocarbon energy potential.
4) So, real, scientific, conclusion is, that using hydrogen at its best can be like some expensive battery. Make hydrogen when you have too much power and use it when you do not have that power.
If you just study your basic Physics and Chemistry, you would know that GH is a pipe dream.
Please, believe in Science!!!
GH is ‘green hydrogen’? Why do idiot reporters have to try to be cute and come up with their own acronyms? Anyone in industry is going to see GH and think gaseous hydrogen, as opposed to LH2.
Course the wife would just jump to General Hospital....
It was always obvious that “green” and/or “renewable” sources would never provide energy in sufficient density to be a major contributor to a 21st Century lifestyle.
Instead of wasting billions pursuing a green pipe dream, all that money should have gone to nuclear power production and fusion research. Fission power alone in its current state is sufficiently sophisticated to provide 100% of our electrical needs until such time as it can be supplanted by fusion.
Since 1955 there have been 13 deaths in the US related to nuclear production of electricity. Twelve were industrial accidents (electrocution, escaping steam, heavy falling objects). Only one was the result of radiation exposure and that was because a “technician” mistook a jug of liquid fissile material for cleaning solution.
The Three Mile Island accident was a “worst case” scenario because it involved multiple safety system failures. Yet not only were there ZERO resulting deaths, long-term studies of the people living withing five miles of the facility showed no significant additional cancers.
On the other hand, since 1955 more than 8500 people have been killed in coal mining mishaps.