Peri, I was really just referring to the fact that hydrogen is not a source of energy. You have to do some work to get it, Far more than you have to when you oxidize a hydrocarbon.
As you say, electrolysis is a poor way to store energy as H2. And, we currently burn hydrocarbons to make most of the electrons used to for cracking water. A bad trade off. In the building next to my lab is a hydrogen electrolyzer that runs off of a thin film solar PV roof generation system. An incredibly expensive and silly set up IMO. Anyway, people insist on referring to hydrogen as an energy source, but they are only looking at the end use. In reality the hydrogen is being used to transport the energy from some other energy source (an electric power plant) to the end use - and with lots of inefficiency however you do it. Petroleums are a really good transport mechanism except for all those stray nitrogen, and carbon compounds. We are probably lucky in an existential sense that it is hard to get H2 out of water. But, there you have it, it is hard to get H2 out of water. Electrons generated from fusion energy would do it cleanly. -- Put this question to yourself: should I use everyone else to attain happiness, or should I help others gain happiness? *Dalai Lama * Tell me what it is you plan to do With your one wild and precious life? Mary Oliver, "The summer day." To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas A. Edison<http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasaed125362.html> A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. *Warren Buffet* Michael E. Ross (919) 550-2430 Land (919) 576-0824 <https://www.google.com/voice/b/0?pli=1#phones> Google Phone (919) 631-1451 Cell (919) 513-0418 Desk michael.e.r...@gmail.com <michael.e.r...@gmail.com> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evdl.org/private.cgi/ev-evdl.org/attachments/20140314/32f835bd/attachment.htm> _______________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE: http://www.evdl.org/help/index.html#usub http://lists.evdl.org/listinfo.cgi/ev-evdl.org For EV drag racing discussion, please use NEDRA (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NEDRA)
