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To: backwoods-engineer

Wrong. The sun uses hydrogen as a fuel and converts it into helium through nuclear fusion.


18 posted on 02/25/2015 12:23:32 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
Wrong. The sun uses hydrogen as a fuel and converts it into helium through nuclear fusion.

You are wrong. "Fuel" is your sentence is just a metaphor. Toyota is not proposing H1 fusion. We cannot yet create a sustained H1 fusion, nor even a sustained deuterium-lithium fusion, which has the lowest energy threshold.

Stop talking about fusion, people. This is not about fusion. This is a fuel cell, which is a technical term, and does not mean that hydrogen is really a fuel, in the same sense gasoline is. It is not.

28 posted on 02/25/2015 12:28:41 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: goldstategop

I’m sorry, when did the subject shift from automotive technology to astrophysics?

In the context of this thread, hydrogen is NOT a fuel. It is an energy transport medium. If we could _find_ free hydrogen in (or convertible to) a suitable form, it could be considered a fuel. Alas, it takes more energy to produce/release the hydrogen we need in a practical form than we get from using it, so it’s just a mechanism for storing & moving energy.


40 posted on 02/25/2015 12:34:28 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: goldstategop

That’s only relevant if that hydrogen can be plucked out of the air with a giant air scoop for fuel. What’s the source of the hydrogen used in the car?


67 posted on 02/25/2015 1:13:48 PM PST by gogeo (If you are Tea Party, the eGOP does not want you.)
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To: goldstategop

No! You’re wrong!!! (grin)


113 posted on 02/25/2015 10:13:42 PM PST by SierraWasp (Help Stamp Out Pernicious Progressives and Arrogant Activists With Their Liberalism!!!)
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