On Jun 21, 2006, at 6:44 PM, Leigh Meyers wrote:
Eugene Coyle wrote:
The electricity for producing hydrogen is most likely to come from
coal or nuclear generation. Hydrogen is not a panacea -- it is not
even an energy source but rather a storage medium.
The coal industry is pushing synfuels as a replacement for oil
generated
energy, not hydrogen <http://leighm.net/blog/ndc_synfuel_transcript/>,
so I'm going to leave them out of this as they are currently not a
'player'.
I knew hydrogen is a storage medium for energy (as are coal and oil),
but as a de-centralized energy source for the smaller, more human
communities of the future, AFAICT water... not coal or fission,
will be
the choice for generating that hydrogen (unless there's going to be a
nuclear reactor in every town and city), and they've yet to work
out the
transport scheme for centralized distribution of LNG, no less
hydrogen.
Decentralized generation will be the most viable situation in lieu of
dramatic changes in governmental and petro-chemical industry policy.
And we're back to the privatization of a valuable energy resource. Not
to mention human neccesity. Water.
Leigh
http://leighm.net/
HOw can water be the source for generating Hydrogen? It takes more
energy to get hydrogen from water than is in the resulting hydrogen.
The transportation scheme for LNG already exists. The LNG is re-
gasified at the import terminal and then the natural gas goes into
the already existing grid.
Gene Coyle
