Originally posted by lazs2
you just now noted that I don't think like everyone else? Here's a clue... no one thinks like everyone else.
hydrogen? it takes more energy to make (electricity at this point) than the energy you get out of it.. it is dangerous and difficult to use. I don't see it as viable until we have almost free electricity and at that point... so many other doors will be open that it will just be a sideshow.
You can get free electricity from the sun.. it won't work all the time...night for instance.... more and more homes are using panels to make their bill... $0 they mostly still need to be hooked up to the grid tho.. but they sell back power during the day and it is used to run industry and take a load off the grid.
At that point... I will have solar and septic and a well and hope I never have to deal with any fee taxing taxing the fee on taxes petty little recycler socialist and..
I will build some damn 3 sec 0-60 electric car to get around in and keep the hot rods for the smell and the noise.
The free market is doing it right now. cost is about half what it was 10 years ago.. seen houses go up that the panels were in the roof tiles... looked like "normal" tiles.
soon... home depot will be selling solar panels for a couple grand...
All this depends on the government staying out of the way. I don't want em going crazy and making even more government and taxes to support some hydrogen project that may or may not pan out.
They would need to tax and to restrict.. I never think that the end justifies the means except in hindsight.
lazs
I noticed immediately, your strongly held beliefs and outspokenness.
Like, how could I not? lol
Hydrogen got a bad rap due to the airship explosions of the first half of the 20th century.
Also the word Hydrogen is linked to nuclear power... yet another scary.
Power is dangerous by virtue of being power... even the power of love.
But we can not exist without power. Oil is nuclear based power from the Sun and can be quite dangerous.
Ask anyone who has had napalm dropped on their heads or has been in a refinery explosion or car explosion or fire.
Hydrogen fuel, as you no doubt know, is created by seperating Hydrogen atoms from H2O molecules.
Yes it takes energy to separate them little atoms from each other.
Energy is simply... matter converted to dynamic or potential energy... power.
Charging a lead acid battery creates Hydrogen, thus the caution about charging a battery in a well ventilated space.
We have nuclear power plants and hydro-electric power plants and solar power plants... sources of power used to seperate H2O molecules into Hydrogen atoms and Oxygen atoms... a storable portable energy source.
I do not believe it takes more energy to convert H2O into separate atoms of Hydrogen and Oxygen than the Hydrogen atoms produce when burned.
Perhaps I am mistaken on this... do you have references to support that claim?
In the present case of nuclear fusion... it required more energy to cause atomic fusion than the energy it produces.
Nuclear fusion is the long sought holy grail of energy by research nuclear scientists.
All the Best,
TIGERESS
edit: Why is it of the utmost importance that we discover H20 on other worlds if we are to explore the solar system and other star systems?
It goes well beyond having something to drink. Separation of H20 into hydrogen and oxygen will fuel spaceship engines and give us something to breath.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/kids/energyfacts/sources/IntermediateHydrogen.html