Posted on 09/29/2004 10:15:12 AM PDT by ckilmer
Bleh. Thats nothing. I personally produce NATURAL GAS in great volumes from all kinds of commonly obtainable things.
I used to use lye and aluminum foil - it produced hydrogen and a lot of heat...
The only way we could effectively make hydrogen a major fuel source is to develop fusion reactors, then put the reactors out at sea and generate hydrogen. Just no practical cheap solution to make hydrogen, except from hydrocarbons, in which case we might as well burn them.
Oh, come on now. How can you possibly ban it? We've already managed to pollute virtually the whole earth with it!
The real problem is production costs.
Yes, a photovoltaic array could drive an electrolysis unit. But this one looks like it's being done thermally, no electricity involved and the only thing the "solar" part is for, is heating.
Yeah it's all around! Don't buy French wine or even their drinking water, it's full of the stuff!
So true, so true.. too much of that stuff will kill you..
the winner is the company that kills the cost of hydrogen production.
[ The danger of dealing with dihydrogenmonoxide is just to great. the substance should be banned. ]
So true, so true.. too much of that stuff will kill you..
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bah that's all water under the bridge.
Great, there goes the rest of our freaking water.
Definitelly. As W.C. Fields has said, fish f*rt in it.
Not that hard, I did it as a kid, with nothing more than aluminum foil and cardboard.
The trick is setting the meat at the focal point of the reflected light/heat.
If you want max efficiency you may want to grab the tracking system from a used satellite dish to follow the sun.
Actually, what he said starts with an f but it is not the same word.
Another of several new technologies that are relegated to the back pages of the news, or given only passing notice.
Few if any are taken seriously, and most seem to wither from lack of support.
Some survive for several years as obscure projects kept alive by a few dedicated researchers.
This one shows some real promise, if it can be scaled up sufficiently.
Together with some of the other arcane developments of the last few years it might be able to make a real dent in our infrastructure's dependance on oil.
I like oil, I enjoy fast cars that use Hundred Octane fuel, I like overnight delivery of my packages too.
But I despise our being squeezed by foreign governments and oil companies, so I look forward to new tech that can make us more independent.
Any conversion to a hydrogen based infrastructure will take decades to implement, even if the hydrogen were suddenly available in unlimited quantities for virtually free!
I want to see ANWAR drilled ASAP, giving us some breathing room regarding tight oil supplies.
I want that time used to initiate a truly serious effort to develop the most promising of the new technologies.
I would be willing for congress to make it a condition of drilling ANWAR that the oil companies become ENERGY companies, putting a dedicated percentage of the ANWAR revenue into energy research.
Canadian Group Produces Hydrogen from Water Using Solar Energy"
This sounds like a movie I saw Chain Reaction (1996) with Keanu Reeves
WOW! A Perpetual Motion machine!
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