Limitless hydrogen?

[Jones Beene]

A few warped lyrics (sorry Cyndi) to start off Toto's latest "scoop" just received courtesy of Brazilian investigative journalist (and ductwork engineer) Harry Tuttle... I see your true colors, shining through I see your true colors and that's why I hate you; no wonder your afraid to let them show your true colors are as guilt-marked as yellow snow A novel answer to fueling the future hydrogen economy with limitless American-produced H2 gas from ubiquitous geologic formations has been suggested in the Brazilian science-press. It does not involve methane, and produces zero carbon. The only by-product is in-situ silicon-dioxide (i.e. quartz).   So why aren't our dedicated scientists at NREL onto this incredible new technology like the proverbial stink on Toto's truffles... Supposedly, this idea has been patented and is already being done commercially but quietly in Russia, and the "buzz" of conspiracy theorist is that the reason it has been hush-hushed here in the USA at the highest level, is that the "industry" which of course means the industry which controls deep drilling, is trying to first locate, buy-up and secure, at taxpayers expense, all of the best drilling sites, and obtain copy-cat patents, prior to any announcement. You probably figured out that a certain company, the Capo-de-capo of the petro-mafia, whose profits are well hidden in Caribbean banks (actually owns several) is one of the principle beneficiaries of this spy-war obtained technology. But why should commercial ideas developed in Russia, and obtained from our publicly-financed espionage network, end up going to private companies with a history of illegally cheating citizens and hiding profits off-shore?... Ha, that's a no-brainer, isn't it?  Crony-capitalism at work, my Good fella, and once again - you - the taxpayer - will get the proverbial royal shaft by allowing the same hegemony and illegal cabal which now controls petroleum - to also control this very cheap future source of hydrogen. How cheap is this new form of H2? A few Russian defectors and geologists (the one's not on corporate payrolls) say that it is already cheaper to produce H2 there than methane (if water is available locally). They even use the H2 and brown coal to make artificial methane to sell to Germany. This technique for H2 has the potential to be a tenth as costly to consumers in the near future as natural gas, given the recent rapid rise in natural gas prices, according to these same "Brazilian" sources. It requires the use of explosives, periodically dropped into boreholes, but presumably these are non-nuclear. It also requires a lot of surface water, so it is presumably not suitable for arid regions. Many natural metal silicides, which compose the bulk of the mantle of earth, can split water using only modest heat or no heat. Because these silicides are found at significant depths, the heat is often there naturally. For instance: Strontium silicide decomposes in water to liberate hydrogen gas and/or SiH2. The oxygen combines with the silicon and stays put. http://www.espi-metals.com/msds's/Strontium%20Silicide.htm. There are vast deposits of these silicides in the earth's crust, especially beneath the "great plains" of the Western US, such that drilling and pumping water down will return massive quantities of hydrogen up, but one thing is for sure. By the time the US consumer gets to "benefit" from this technology, the cost will have been inflated to whatever price the market will bear... and all indications are that the present administration is setting the stage for $5 per gallon gasoline at the pump, and equal inflation in methane prices, should they loose the next election (not likely, thanks to good Christians everywhere). Jones Are someone's "true colors" starting to shine through ? http://renewableenergyaccess.com/rea/news/story;jsessionid=a-1Alzqg34y4?id=23074