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To: oldasrocks

But what about the solar panels that are used to produce electricity, the electricity used for electrolysis of water into hydrogen and oxygen, with the hydrogen being collected and stored for use in an internal combustion engine, for those hours of darkness when literally, the sun doesn’t shine.

Could be made to be “sustainable”. Kind of a Rube Goldberg solution for a problem that does not have to be nearly that complicated.

Hydrogen-powered fuel cells would be a lot more efficient than internal-combustion engines in many applications, however.

Replace gasoline as a motor fuel with natural gas, right off the home distribution system, or as compressed natural gas available at convenient service stations.

Even Diesel engines can use compressed natural gas as a supplementary fuel source (still need the Diesel fuel to assure compression-ignition, though). Internal combustion engines all accelerate or respond to load by overfueling, and compressed natural gas fulfills this requirement well.


24 posted on 09/20/2017 7:22:48 AM PDT by alloysteel (Guilty until proven innocent, while denying defense, justice, mercy or any appeal. No pardon, ever.)
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To: alloysteel

Your use of factual information is confusing to the Libtards.


27 posted on 09/20/2017 7:31:16 AM PDT by wjcsux (The hyperventilating of the left means we are winning! (Tagline courtesy of Laz.))
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