Hmmm. I'm not an enviro, by any means, but just reading that scares the bejeebers out of me, lol. "Hydrogen" always sounds like "bomb" to me.
However, I'm intrigued by the "sludge-like" fluid that can be refined into synfuels. I've just never paid any attention to any of this because so little of it seems viable or even feasible. It will be interesting to watch this progress. Thanks for the info.
It a badly-written article. It uses Helium as coolant. Helium is the most inert element there is. A noble gas. I think only supernovas (or close) get it going.
The hydrogen relates to a new fuelcell deal that UT is studying.
(And its dueterium that's bomb hydrogen, not plain old hydrogen. Need that extra nuetron. And fusion, not fission.)