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Self-Sustaining Solar Reactor Creates Clean Hydrogen
An anonymous reader writes "A mechanical engineer working out of the University of Delaware has come up with a way to produce hydrogen without any undesirable emissions such as carbon dioxide. The solar reactor is capable of using sunlight to increase the heat inside its cylindrical structure above 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Zinc oxide powder is then gravity fed through 15 hoppers into the ceramic interior where it converts to a zinc vapor. At that point the vapor is reacted with water separately, which in turn produces hydrogen. If the prototype gets through 6 weeks of testing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology located in Zurich, we could see it scaled up to industrial size, producing emission-free hydrogen."
Can't tell if sincere, or sarcastic and uninformed...
The SI unit for temperature is Kelvin. The Celsius and Kelvin scales are related, which means Celsius makes rational sense. The Fahrenheit is indeed archaic, its just that the general population of the US is too stubborn to change (the US government tried to change; and the US military made the transition since the units are more rational). So your defense of Fahrenheit scale is pretty dumb (or trollish?) - no wonder you wanted to post as an Anonymous Coward.