[Razorism]

After reading this article, concerning mobile biological weapons laboratories using fermentation to produce hydrogen in Irag, I would like to point out a major flaw in the reasoning ie. electrolysis of water is the favorite method to produce hydrogen, other methods include: thermochemical reactions in carbon base fuels (oil), photoelectrochemical process using sunlight, and natural photosynthetic activity of bacteria and green algae. No where do I see fermentation used as favorite method. Why produce an elaborate mobile biological weapons laboratory when you cab produce hydrogen like this link: http://webhome.idirect.com/7Efamistew/hydrogen/electro.htm Is this a coverup? Perhaps a reader who is a chemist can comment further.

[John Valentine]

I'm not a chemist, but I don't need to be a chemist to understand that all I need to inflate a weather balloon is an easily transportable container of a compressed light gas like hydrogen or helium.

Hydrogen is cheaper and in view of the fact that there is little risk of loss of life with a hydrogen filled weather balloon, I'd opt for hydrogen. But I sure wouldn't invest in a mobile fermentation facility to get it- I'd get it at a fixed-facility hydrogen manufacturing facility, which MUST have existed in Iraq.

That's economic insanity.

[DJ MacWoW]

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