Posted on 11/11/2019 8:21:41 PM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
1 cubic ft of hydrogen = 325 btu’s of heat available
1 gallon of #2 fuel oil = 138,500 btu’s of heat available.
I gallon is about .133 cubic feet.
so 1 cubic ft of hydrogen = 325 btu’s
1 cubic ft of fuel oil = 1,041,353 btu’s
This is why hydrogen isn’t a viable fuel for general purpose use. Either you compress hydrogen, then burn a lot fast to get the energy out of it ( rocket engines) or you burn oil at ambient pressure and get a lot of energy for the volume consumed. One is a lot safer.
Whatever happened to making it from water and DC electricity? Solar panels and a water source would be almost free after paying for the solar panels.
The idea would be for the Hydrogen extraction from oil and bitumen would be controlled enough to maintain the power demands of the engine. That way it keeps the level of hydrogen available down to where any accident does not create catastrophe. If the mechanism for such extraction was miniaturized in a small device, it may even lower the weight of a vehicle.
Sounds good to me. Does bring up a great opportunity too. There is going to be a big market for the trailers of oil sands you will have to tow behind the car to keep it running.
Invest in trailer manufacturers.
What about adding the water vapor to the atmosphere when the hydrogen burns? Water vapor is 70 times worse than CO2
The greenies won't say a word until billions or trillions have been invested in this technology, then they'll "discover" this problem and ban its use.
They've pulled this crap in the past, they can't help but do it in the future.
Mark my words.
Yes.
Wasn't the Hindenburg painted with powdered aluminum paint over red iron oxide primer? In other words it was covered in thermite!
Yup. Painted in thermite.
The fact that the hydrogen for hydrogen fueled cars is coming from petrochemicals has got to be killing the greenie weenies.
CC
Exactly!! #sciencematters.
It may work. But hydrogen leaks the walls of the pipes , and even more through joints and welds that oil and natural gas are well-sealed by.
from the article: “This technique can draw up huge quantities of hydrogen while leaving the carbon in the ground.”
The hydrogen is almost certainly coming from the cleavage of carbon-hydrogen bonds in hydrocarbons in the ground, and the unaddressed question is what happens to the carbon? Does it end up as CO2 (which can ultimately leach out)? Or does the carbon end up in some other form - that’s a pretty fundamental consideration, and it’s odd, at least to me, that it remains unaddressed (or if addressed, unstated).
Hydrogen? One word: Hindenburg.
It’ll never “get there”.
The (inaptly) named SunCell (tm) is a MUCH safer approach AND runs on trace quantities of water (extracting the H2 as needed.) This a MUCH SAFER approach as opposed to HYDROGEN TRANSPORT as others have pointed out ...
AS anyone who follows Thunderf00t on Youtube knows, he fears ‘free Hydrogen’ in a lab MORE than anything else on account of its “explosiveness”.
Are you questioning the Hydrogen Pixie?
Well, yes. Control freaks will always find something that is “problematic” that needs to be controlled or made off limits.
Since bitumen is asphalt, I supposed a hydrogen powered car could just suck up hydrogen as it goes. (hehe)
“So...Global Clouding?”
Why, I think you just coined a phrase! “Global Clouding”. Nice.
You had better trademark that name. Heck, start selling Cloud Credits!
“This can be used to power hydrogen-powered vehicles, which are...”
Well, I hate to clue in the uninformed, but every petrol engine IS a hydrogen engine: CH3(CH2)6CH3 - good old octane! It’s just that we currently drag along a few carbons too.
And diesel too: Mostly C9H20 or C14H30.
My PROBLEM, is that no one has stated that ANY of these processes are at least energy break-even to remove the carbon. if they do not at least break even energy wise, we’re just using more energy to get the same amount of work done! A bad idea. It’s like using ethanol from corn; about as STUPID an idea as one can get... yet that’s what we do! If we really want to do ethanol, use soybeans, beats or algae as feed stock.
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