murdoch
Sat, 20 Sep 2003 10:28:00 -0600
>Initially Hydrogen will come from US coal reserves and then >central production with huge Nuclear Power Stations. To >diversify from this, to consumer level is at best a naive dream >and probably a deliberate attempt of scam. To some extent I think it will also come from natural gas reformed at the level of the home (and let us remember that H2 is presently usually made from Natural Gas... about 90% I think). And, as Ken points out, from simple electrolysis using electricity delivered to the home. If they must have their H2 economy, I'd like to see H2 made from other sources, such as methane made from biomass, if they want to establish a sustainable economy of H2, but what do I know. >To hook up your car for consumer production of one of the >most difficult gases to handle, cannot be a realistic dream. >Osama bin Laden would be happy to know that the Americans >will blow up themselves at the end. > >Maybe they are now building arguments for Bush to take the >taxpayers money and pay for the upgrade of the grid. > >Hakan > >At 08:42 AM 9/20/2003, you wrote: >>Hi >> >>Here's my two cents worth on the hydrogen economy. >>Electrolysis of water is what will happen and the car >>companies are promoting plugging into your home at >>night to charge up for the morning commute. >> >>How much extra capacity will power companies need to >>install to charge up all these hydrogen cars? Let's >>say your car averages 20-horsepower (~15kW) for an >>hour a day = 54MJoules/day. I read somewhere that an >>average house uses 0.75kW and if this means 24 hours >>per day, 65MJoules/day. It would interesting if >>anyone has an "average" electric bill for comparison. >> >> >>A lot of energy will be needed to charge up all those >>millions of hydrogen cars and where will it come from? >> >>Best regards, >> >>Ken > > > > >Biofuel at Journey to Forever: >http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > >Biofuels list archives: >http://archive.nnytech.net/ > >Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. >To unsubscribe, send an email to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> ReplayTV: CNet Ranked #1 over Tivo! Instant Replay & Pause live TV. Special Sale: 50% off! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UUMW7B/.5qGAA/ySSFAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send Unsubscribe messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/