Originally Posted by Ken Hill
Q: Hydrogen, yes that could be an answer. much better and more cost efficient i think to invest in hydrogen development as opposed to nuclear. so many fewer and less dangerous problems. but still apparently a fair amount of technical difficulties to over come.

Jesus Schlack--do you never sleep? What time is it in my fatherland anyway?

But I digress. A problem with hydrogen is that it takes a massive amount of electricity to produce. That's where the nukes come into play. Nukes producing electricity to crack the hydrogen from water. Think of hydrogen as a battery of sorts. Energy is stored there but it takes energy to produce it.

Now--go to bed.

Sleep is for the weak Ken!

actually I have today off and im basically a night owl!

why do you think that Nuclear is neccessary for producing hydrogen?

Sunlight to Fuel Hydrogen Future

"The photovoltaic cell is old news. The latest way to exploit the sun is through tiny materials that can directly convert sunlight into large amounts of hydrogen.

Hydrogen Solar of Guilford, England, and Altair Nanotechnologies are building a hydrogen-generation system that captures sunlight and uses the energy to break water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The company's current project is a fuel station in Las Vegas that will soon be dispensing hydrogen fuel"

its possible that we could all have hydro generators in our local gas stations. i prefer to think on numerous small scale solutions rather than the big spectaculars! i would have thought that americans in particular would be interested in the freedom of generating ones own energy.

isnt there another problem with hydrogen, the size of the gas. doesnt it need to be turned to liquid in order to be able to easily carry around enough in a car to fuel itself? otherwise it may look a little like this:

[Linked Image from blogs.knoxnews.com]

seriosuly though, i understood hydrogen when liquified as at a very low temperature and pressurised. again not the best recipie for success in a world where cars crash so often. i think hydrogen may only be safely limited to stationary centres.



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