Posted on 05/30/2013 7:07:36 PM PDT by neverdem
Thanks for the interesting article. Very nice....
So now people in poor countries will have to forego corn and soybeans as part of their diet, so that we don’t have to use fossil fuels to drive.
and this is a problem why?
It may not be a problem for us, but it could be a problem for those whose diet was primarily soybean or corn.
Not our concern. They would simply have to locate an alternate source of food.
but it is the cost of the electricity used for the electrolysis that wipes out any chance for h2 to become worth the cost of producing it
Yes. I suppose they could try to make rocks work.
It may also be that the chemical in soybeans can be produced artificially
The problems faced by the underdeveloped world are not our direct concern. The problems that directly affect this nation should be dealt with first. As most of that part of the world is controlled by one form or another of dictatorial governments, what ever aid we send would be misappropriated in any case.
I don’t bother with hand-wringing, makes my fingers sore and accomplishes nothing.
Then don’t be concerned if third world countries have to resort to eating rocks.
It’s all good.
GMO soybeans owned by Monsanto that sues farmers for trying to save seed? Michael Taylor former Monsanto guy , 2nd in charge at the FDA? Follow the money.... who in Congress/Executive branch has a vested interest in MONSANTO?
These scumbags are insidious! This is all b/s the elites are making money off of anything...but mostly from evil technology like this.
Science is as “bought” as the IRS... it’s the Chicago way!
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They already do. But, then, so do we.
Not ALL. There is electricity generated by nuclear.
Oh, please. The amount of soybeans needed to produce the necessary catalyst wouldn't even cause a detectable blip in the multi-megatons of soybeans produced.
That might not be entirely true, there are times when the wholesale value of power goes negative in the middle of the night when usage is very low and the gigawatts of wind turbines that have been installed are working full steam ahead, wind is mostly blowing at night and during those periods wind power producers actually pay the wholesale market to take it since they cannot curtail production per contract and by the nature of the spinning mass of the turbines. At those times when the power us under 2cents or even negative hydrogen from electrolysis would make a ideal way to store and use this surplus power. Here in Texas this happens quite a bit where the wholesale power market goes negative at nights especially spring and fall when weather fronts bring high winds to west Texas at night.
So you spend millions to set up plants in the hopes you get that kind of negativity and every time it happens you get an atta boy but remember just one aw sh** wipes out one attaboy. But even if can mass produce the hydrogen cheaply, exactly what do you do with it without its complete and own storage and distribution network?
What kind of sense does it make to even try when we are sitting on all that coal?
BTW, do you see any credits on your power bill from that “free” power?
The more I think about it why not build wind farms to exclusively produce hydrogen fuel if the use and efficiency of the hydrogen is worth more than the production costs?
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