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Creating Hydrogen With (Very) Hot Water
carbonman writes "NYTimes is reporting that a public-private research team will announce on Monday that they have discovered a new technique to produce pure hydrogen that is far more efficient than conventional methods. The advance could be a significant development in attempts to realize the dream of the hydrogen economy in taking gasoline-powered vehicles off the road, and without releasing carbon dioxide emissions that are linked to climate change. It does, however, require the use of advanced high-temperature nuclear reactors, none of which have been built on a production scale before."
swiftstream adds a link to the same story at the no-reg Indianapolis Star, and summarizes the method as "electrolysis of very, very hot water."
Don't they mean steam?
Is it just me or water can't be very very hot? At about 100 degrees Celcius, it vaporize... are they doing electrolysis on hot vapor? If so, can their tech be called Vaporware? :)
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...perfect for espresso machines.
So...how long before there's a lawsuit resulting from a scalding burn while at the drive-thru fill up?
Once you've got the nuclear reactor in your car, why bother with all this hydrogen business? You've got all the energy you need from the reactor itself.
How am I supposed to fit a pithy, relevant quote into 120 characters?
Does that mean they will be showing their privates in public? Are there any females on this public-private team? If so, then I am there for the 'unveiling'!
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Good Doctor Frink, I'm interested in your advanced hyperbolic topology degrees. Do you sell those in Redmond?
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The product of hydrogen combustion is water. If this is released into the environment, then we're dealing with another greenhouse gas (water vapor).
very high temperatures hybdogen gas nuclear reactors What could possibly go wrong
I thought H2 was a type of Hummer.
Or you could cough up $100000+ to become a resident of St. Kitts and Nevis.
Cool, how much do you gotta coulgh up to put a nuclear reactor there?
If this is released into the environment, then we're dealing with another greenhouse gas (water vapor).
It is far worse than one would imagine. You can read more about the dangers here about the byproduct of hydrogen combustion. Truly sobering....were they to put these in automobiles, they would generate a key component of acid rain.
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I heard they designed a car engine which could run off of silly conspiracy theories, but the Boy Scouts and Knights Templars suppressed it.
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when you spoon that instant coffee in, it explodes
instant explosion upon spooning eh?
sounds like most guys on slashdot.
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Speaking as someone who has used hydrogen as a furnace atmosphere, if I had considered it as both safe and simple I suspect I would not be around to write this. I suppose if nuclear power at sea is safe and simple then everything else on earth must be even more so.
Keep it up, and the oil companies will pack you in the same box with the 800,000 MPG carburator / free energy device.
Then you'll have to change your handle to TheKidWhoProvedSchroedingersTheory.
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" The people that run the Country rely on oil as the controlling mechanism"
Wow. Thank god oil came along. I mean, prior to that, goverments simply weren't cohesive or had any sort of controlling mechanisms, right?
Remember kids:
Oil. It's all your fault
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