Hi, Am Sonntag, den 09.04.2006, 14:17 -0600 schrieb L505: > > > > > "There is no excuse for Oil being a raw material needed to ship food" > > > > > > No, there isn't. Which is why those who can are switching to gas (which, > > > lo and behold, farmers can produce that themselves) and hydrogen and > > > trains anyways. The only "problem" is the lag of the infrastructure, > > > that is, inertia. But that wasn't the point, I see. > > > And as for hydrogen: how do you make hydrogen? By using energy to first get > the > hydrogen? > > I'm not familiar with the process. I know you can make hydrogen from water, by > dissecting water into pieces through electrolysis.
Yeah, that method sucks :) I'd use http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haber_process since there it's a "leftover" resulting H component anyways... I wonder what they are doing with all the hydrogen resulting from that right now :) > But this costs you energy - > the electricity that it takes to make hydrogen may be more than what you are > in > fact getting OUT of the hydrogen that you produce. I'm not sure though. Then > again, it does cost us money to run oil rigs and etc. - and we do get more oil > out of the ground than it costs us to retrieve the oil. cheers, Danny _________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe: mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" as the Subject archives at http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailarchives
