[Gasification] Hydrogen

[Harmon Seaver]

rkurt at tadaust.org.au wrote:
 > However------ I'm not aware of any reasonably accessible mines for
> carbon monoxide either. Neither can you harvest it, it doesn't grown on
> trees. The primary fuel is the carbon, CO is merely the transport
> mechanism there as well.
> 
> Kurt
    Well, the efficiency is far different. That's what I'm talking
about. Sure you can turn water into H2 and O. Child's play -- as a
matter of fact, I was just looking at a "Hydrogen powered rocket" at
Hobby Lobby the other day, and as far as I could see from the package,
it actually did create H2 and power the rocket. Pretty cool. However, it
is a simple matter of fact, that if you are trying to power your daily
ride, you will be far better off to just charge some batteries.
   Now, if you use some wood chips in a gasifier and create some CO,H2,
etc and use that to create some electricity to charge those batteries --
ah, then we have renewable energy. If you use those same watts to then
disassociate water into H2 and O, burn them in a fuel cell or any other
known device, you end up with far less real energy to get you down the
road.
   This is the basic lie (hoax, scam, "green washing") inherent in the
"hydro economy" that the bushites have been pushing.
    How I would love it if hydrogen just "worked" -- such a nice idea,
turn water into H2 and O, then burn it again into water and get all that
nice clean energy. Fantastic!! -- and yup, that's just what it is, fantasy.

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Harmon Seaver