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To: backwoods-engineer
Hydrogen is not a fuel. It is an energy storage medium.

Agreed. It is competition with a battery, not an actual fuel. It takes the consumption of another fuel to create it, and that is a significant loss of efficiency. Today, the cheapest form of H2 is from steam reforming natural gas.

16 posted on 06/02/2014 5:40:43 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: thackney

I agree with both of you but steam reform means storage and transportation. Hydrogen is one of the most difficult gases on earth to “handle”

I can’t see it working unless you use inefficient hydrolysis or some localized process “on site” at the refill station. None of this makes any sense to me.


22 posted on 06/02/2014 6:11:26 AM PDT by MrKatykelly
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To: thackney
steam-reforming natural gas

I had a brain gear slip in my earlier post; I conflated steam reformation with the Fischer-Tropsch process (for making ammonia from natural gas and nitrogen). Sorry about that.

47 posted on 06/02/2014 9:41:16 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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