Re: Hydrogen economy leads to environmental disaster
Posted by Dale on Feb 15, 2002 at 08:04
157.arc1.il-decatur1.fgi.net (204.212.222.65)Re: Hydrogen economy leads to environmental disaster (DA Morgan)
No one in their right mind would select, as the option of choice, a hydrogen economy based on hydrocarbons that would keep us dependant on Middle Eastern oil.I thought hydrogen was the cure-all for every environmental woe? No one is ever concerned about where the hydrogen comes from. It’s hydrogen, dude!
But in case you were unaware, coal is a hydrocarbon and the US has more hydrogen locked up in coal than the rest of the world has in petroleum.
The best source of hydrogen is the oceans.And all you have to do is get supply enough energy to split it free from the oxygen. Maybe if we had hydrogen fuel cells to create the electricity to electrolysizes the hydrogen to run the fuel cells that create the electricity that makes the hydrogen that fuels the cells that creates the electricity that…
And as it releases the correct amount of oxygen when separated ... the balance is perfectly returned when it is combusted.Perfectly? No corrosion in the generation equipment? No hydrogen leakage? Absolutely perfect? Oh, ok, you’re real close to correct with one sentence in this post.
What a horribly scary concept to some.References?
It isn’t scary, Danny. Just physically / economically impossible.