[Gasification] Hydrogen

[Harmon Seaver]

  Somehow, I am still amazed that anyone on this list would be posting
articles promoting hydrogen. The hydrogen hoax has been exposed
endlessly, ad infinitum. Some really simple tests for the practicality
of hydrogen as a fuel are these:

1) How is it produced?
	a) nukes?`
		The nuclear industry is the primary proponent for hydrogen.
	b) solar or wind?	
		In this case you really need to do the math. You can charge and run a
battery powered electrical vehicle much further on solar/wind than you
can produce H2 by electrolysis and run a fuel cell vehicle. Not to
mention that the latter costs $3-4 million dollars.

2) How is it stored?
	Well???? H2 is such a small molecule, it leaks thru most barriers.

3) How is it transported?
	There is no known possible way to transport H2 except in very special
trucks which carry very little actual H2. There is no known possible way
to supply "gas stations" as we presently know them with H2.

   Now, H2 as included in woodgas and burned either immediately or
several feet away is another story.


Harmon Seaver