Posted on 06/09/2022 3:38:58 AM PDT by dennisw
What if we run out of hydrogen?
Remember when paper bags were killing forests and therefore killing the earth - so we had to switch to plastic bags?
Now they’re bringing back paper.
They create crisis after crisis after crisis.
Someone is making money... it aint us.
It looks kind of like the carts we used to use in Radio.
Solar and wind are great at producing hydrogen via electrolysis. Hydrogen as a storage medium for use in automobiles and much more.
I assume you’re being sarcastic, but that would mean using up all the water in the world. Also, the main byproduct of using hydrogen tends to be water, so..
Peak hydrogen...
Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe, constituting roughly 75% of all normal matter.
Question....since hydrogen is highly flammable, how is that concern dealt with using this fuel source?
NASA can make supply and refueling runs with the Sun. There's lots there. Little warm though.
I think in hydrogen fuel cells, the hydrogen is in a substrate, not just a big tank of gas waiting to go hindenburg.
It is an interesting concept, but it still brings us back to Problem #1.
We need to separate hydrogen from water or natural gas before we can even start.
From memory - it still takes more energy to separate the hydrogen than hydrogen fuel can actually produce.
Curiously, just yesterday I read an article about solid state batteries being developed by automotive companies.
No technical discussion, but this may be of interest to you:
Hydrogen is just an energy transport. Creating hydrogen is a net energy loss.
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Thereafter the sun enters the 'red giant' phase.
Is that when it swells and destroys the Earth?
I expect the theory is that it is a lesser net loss than batteries and could replace them as a storage medium.
That's OK.
Just go at night.
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