[Land-speed] Alternative Fuels>From>Jim McNaul

[drmayf]

Jim, how do you produce hydrogen cheaply?  Not by electrolysis, not by 
reforming natural gas or coal by products, not by solar electricity. 
How? That has been the largest stumbling block of all. It takes as much 
energy to  make hydrogen as it gives back in energy.  Point me in the 
right direction. Oh, the best method I have seen so far is the 13 enzyme 
reaction for starches (sugars).  This would work well, maybe becasue yo 
just need water, sugar, and the enzymes.   What other methods are there?

Oh, wait I see that you mention NUkes for the electricity. Yep that 
would do it all right. I invite you to Nevada to join the bazillion 
people who do not want the waste product repository in our back yard. 
Will you let us use your state instead?  Nukes, while they could be 
cheap, are dirty. The mining and processing makes an environmental mess. 
Enriching it to reactor grade takes a ton of electricity to do (see Oak 
Ridge). Breeders are even worse becasue you ultimately have to get rid 
of the sodium as well as the rest of the waste.  And if you relax the 
standards to build them cheaper, then Chernoble is a possibility. Was 
very close at 3 mile Island.  Fusion is 50 years at the earliest.

Wind is also a possibility. I saw a program where in the Netherlands 
that a private company is installing several thousand windmills. But 
when he was done, it would only suppor tabout 100,000 homes and the cost 
was jinormous!.

So we are in a crunch. Or will be in a few short years. IMHO...

mayf, way off and far out in Pahrump, where the Nuke repository is not 
very far away at all...
jgmagoo at comcast.net wrote:

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>Hydrogen does produce very low emissions. Hydrogen *CAN be produced very cheaply* and in almost infinite supply. Hydrogen CAN produce high performance.
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>Efficiency will not really matter if the electricity used to produce the hydrogen comes from nuclear power which is extremely cheap and in nearly  infinite supply. 
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>Safety is still the number one hurdle in all of the above. 
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>Jim McNaul
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