Jed Rothwell wrote:
>
> Where do you get the hydrocarbons? The exciting part of solar
> concentrator is that the starting products are only water and sunlight.
>
Read their press release Jed. They have NOT YET done H2O.
Methane CH4 is a Hydrocarbon as is CxHy.
"SHEC-Labs' prototype solar hydrogen generator has now operated for approximately 1,200 hours with no noticeable coking or degradation of the catalysts. Hydrogen production is near the theoretical maximum at approximately 66% in the product gas stream with a 98.2% mol conversion of the feed methane. "
Had you read the NREL article posted on 09/27/05 regarding
the work of Steinberg & Dong (Brookhaven)
and read their 1998 patent: 5,767,165
" Method for converting natural gas and carbon dioxide to methanol and reducing CO.sub.2 emissions"
You might be a bit less impressed with the "SHEC Miracle".
Frederick
