Will hydrogen from water soon run your car? ( rural communities in the pacific northwest)

The Alaska Journal of Commerce Online ^ | 09/13/04 | Tim Bradner

[ckilmer]

looks like the answer is nope. not just yet. but I liked the idea of using off hour hydro to run hydrogen production.

[Gibtx]

NO .... hydrogen will take 25 yrs to develop once someone says go...... then another 10yrs to get it a staple.......

[aruanan]

Will hydrogen from water soon run your car? ( rural communities in the pacific northwest)

Not unless we turn to nuclear energy in a really big way.

[calenel]

Ah, if only we could repeal the laws of thermodynamics.

[DSBull]

I hope that this works out, I bought a thousand dollars in Hydrogen plants for my garden that are already planted. The ad says that when the Hydr. cars come, I can make good money with my own home service station..Here's to being rich...


/sarcasm

[error99]

"...The concept is elegant and simple.
Pull up to your neighborhood creek or tundra pond, and fill 'er up..."
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Somebody has been smoking something.

[bayourod]

Not my car. It barely runs on regular octane gas.

[Windsong]

"NO .... hydrogen will take 25 yrs to develop once someone says go"

Make that a BIG someone! (i.e. Executive Office status)

Then again, nanotechnology looks promising...

[calenel]

Ah, if only we could repeal the laws of thermodynamics.

[Pearls Before Swine]

When will people understand that hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not an energy source? If you see someone in a hydrogen powered car, you can ask, "Did you burn the fuel yourself to get that there hydrogen, or did you pay someone to burn it for you?"

One could also argue that coal and oil and natural gas are energy storage sources also (solar from long ago), but at least they are laying around. To get hydrogen, you need to electrolyze water, and for that you need to generate electricity--either by burning something or using nuclear power.

[CindyDawg]

I don't believe it will happen until we run out of gas or the gas companies find a way to charge us as much or more than gasoline. We cant't be allowed to just hook up to the water hose:')

[supercat]

One place I already know of that produces hydrogen from water disposes of it uselessly, though for good reason.

[Gibtx]

Nano is in the same pattern......

[John Jamieson]

"What's needed is a source of cheap energy to separate the hydrogen and oxygen in water"

If we had a cheap source of energy what would we need hydrogen for?

To make hydrogen from water, you simply must unburn it!

Pseudo science running around in circles.

[antenna]

Simple thermodynamics: You can't get something for nothing. It takes just as much energy to separate hydrogen from water as you get by re-combining with oxygen to get back to water. Sorry.

[blackeagle]

if i had a chance to get a hydrogen car i would turn it down for my 74 oldsmobile, it gets the envirowackos upset.

[clee1]

Hydrogen power is a giant boondoggle.

Expensive to produce, difficult to transport and store, dangerous as all hell to use, and less efficient as a power source.

I don't buy the "global warming" crapola, but it is true that there is a finite supply of hydrocarbons available. The eco-wackos won't let us drill for more oil/natural gas, and gripe loudly at the thought of coal being burned. Oil prices are high and will only get higher.

The "scientists" would serve us better if they would get off the hydrogen "high" and find another way to generate power.

[Iscool]

There is no way someone is going to invent a process to develop hydrogen cheaply...If we could do it cheaply, it will be illegal...And how much in federal and state taxes on the (free) water???

[Restorer]

Where's the guy with the "Not this **** again" graphic?

[Gibtx]

i like oil..... it is easier to deal with ......