If you do decide to go down the destructive disposal route you could do what the Aussie department of defence does.
1. Get a big grinding wheel
2. Push harddrives against grinding wheel and collect dust
3. Mix dust with concrete
4. Build a building with said concrete
As far as I can tell from the article is that they have found a new way to store hydrogen. When water reacts with sodium, an amount of Hydrogen is produced. However this reaction is so violent and quick that it's impractical. I think they have found a way to kind of "Defuse" the sodium whilst still allowing the hydrogen producing reaction to take place.
This is the whole issue with the supposed "hydrogen economy. Alot of people seem to neglect the fact that to get hydrogen from any source requires an amount of energy input (eg, separating hydrogen from oxygen by the electrolysis of water).
The move to a hydrogen based economy would merely displace the pollution problem by creating more and more power plants.
This would almost be a moot point if/when Fusion power generation is perfected, I just hope that fusion becomes viable before it's too late...
Indeed, If you calulate the total system input, consumption and output without using any fossil fuels what-so-ever along the way then I can't see there being any energy profit.
People also tend to neglect the fact it takes enormous amounts of fossil fuels to grow and farm these biodiesel crops, In terms of fuel/oil cost farming isn't cheap...
"The machines that we use are not all that great, P4 1.7Ghz with 2 year old NVidia graphics cards, so Quake and the likes are out of the question."
Those box's will EASILY play any form of quake/doom/half-life/ut...
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If you do decide to go down the destructive disposal route you could do what the Aussie department of defence does. 1. Get a big grinding wheel 2. Push harddrives against grinding wheel and collect dust 3. Mix dust with concrete 4. Build a building with said concrete
They fail to mention that there are a number of backup satellites sitting up there, waiting to go into the consellation if any fail.
As far as I can tell from the article is that they have found a new way to store hydrogen. When water reacts with sodium, an amount of Hydrogen is produced. However this reaction is so violent and quick that it's impractical. I think they have found a way to kind of "Defuse" the sodium whilst still allowing the hydrogen producing reaction to take place.
I'd assume it's some form of calibration mark. Since it's on alot of the other images aswell.
This is the whole issue with the supposed "hydrogen economy. Alot of people seem to neglect the fact that to get hydrogen from any source requires an amount of energy input (eg, separating hydrogen from oxygen by the electrolysis of water).
The move to a hydrogen based economy would merely displace the pollution problem by creating more and more power plants.
This would almost be a moot point if/when Fusion power generation is perfected, I just hope that fusion becomes viable before it's too late...
Indeed, If you calulate the total system input, consumption and output without using any fossil fuels what-so-ever along the way then I can't see there being any energy profit. People also tend to neglect the fact it takes enormous amounts of fossil fuels to grow and farm these biodiesel crops, In terms of fuel/oil cost farming isn't cheap...
"The machines that we use are not all that great, P4 1.7Ghz with 2 year old NVidia graphics cards, so Quake and the likes are out of the question." Those box's will EASILY play any form of quake/doom/half-life/ut...