Posted on 08/02/2013 2:42:18 AM PDT by LibWhacker
That line alone keeps this out of News/Activism. Worth filing away in the old memory banks, however.
I’m pretty confident that unicorn poops skittles
The Unicorn poops Skittles, not M&Ms. Although I don't possess the documentation, photos or video to back this up, it's a known fact and a 2008 campaign promise made to those who have a strong desire for Skittles. Case in point - What was Travon Martin carrying the night he was casing the wrong neighborhood?
Hydrogen one explosive element that only needs a dull glow to ignite!
Oxygen one of 3 elements required for fire.
Put em together and they are required to sustain life, and put out fires. Yep it's a created universe!
From a purely technical standpoint, I remember the late Paul Harvey talk about this on one of his radio spots. And didn’t some guy in Florida come up with a way of breaking down water into its base elements for welding? I think he even came before congress and the military was interested.
In other words, is this really a new discovery?
Might be useful in sunny, remote locations to have local energy generation. If the cost of fuel has to go “way up”, it is not a large scale solution.
I don’t see it being a large scale solution at all. Even at 100% efficiency you’re still limited by the amount of sunlight you can capture.
Thanks LibWhacker.
It’s probably not new, as in never been done. However, what makes it possibly interesting is that it can be done at such a relatively cheap price, compared to earlier methods.
I see. So the next question is... can be done cheaply enough where one could do it on a small level for home domestic use?
... or would the home production of hydrogen gas constitute a homeland security threat?
I can see now: “...We have to regulate water to make sure it doesn’t get into the hands of terrorists - especially domestic ones...”
There’s a fella (passed on now) who discovered a way to separate hydrogen molecules from salt water utilizing high frequency radio waves.
The guy was a former radio station owner that was attempting to discover a way to target cancer cells without killing healthy cells.
Take a look. It is amazing and repeatable by several lab tests at various universities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGg0ATfoBgo&list=PL6A24088FA483AFE8&index=1
Any process used to split water into O2 and hydrogen requires input of energy. The energy will be more than can be recovered by recombining O2 and hydrogen. Hydrogen is an energy storage medium, not an energy source.
This should be good for getting multi-billions of dollars from the gov’t.
The problem I see with liquid hydrogen is not in producing it, but in holding onto it. If you remember the Shuttle, you would note that they had to continue filling the liquid hydrogen tanks until minutes before the launch. this was because even in the heavily insulated external tank, the hydrogen was constantly boiling off.
H2 will also leak, even through steel.
“Hydrogen is much too volatile for vehicular use.”
Nonsense. You are probably thinking “Hindenburg”. You would be wrong. Suggest you read up on it.
Regarding the picture. How do they get the sun to shine on all 360 degrees?
Oh, another, more serious thought.
To create that kind of solar heat consistently enough to make it worthwhile, I would suspect you would have to built these things in the desert. You know, the places where water is scarce. So, seems like you’d have to have a massive pipeline built or expensive deep wells. This would require a huge infrastructure any way you look at it.
They’ve already built a solar mirror system to run boilers and it’s a boondoggle. They had glowing reports on it on one of those engineering shows. I did more research on it and they hardly ever run it because it’s too expensive to maintain.
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