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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."
But if you burn hydrogen, it creates dihydrogen monoxide, a known greenhouse gas!
This is terrible!
Are you out of your mind? Shipping dihydrogenmonoxide in trucks on regular roads. Do you have any idea how many people die each year because of dihydrogenmonoxide overexposure? Dihydrogenmonoxide was the main reason for the Fukushima disaster. It can already be detected in drinking water supplies of all mayor US cities. This stuff is dangerous!