Seawater and hydrogen
Neto, I finally found out you can use Seawater for Hydrogen power.
the actual problems with hydrogen aren't the type of water that you use, but in fact, how we get the hydrogen molecules from the water. Currently we use to methods: Fossil Fuels and Electrolysis.
At present, 95 percent of America's hydrogen is produced from natural gas. Through a process called steam methane reformation, high temperature and pressure break the hydrocarbon into hydrogen and carbon oxides — including carbon dioxide, which is released into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. Over the next 10 or 20 years, fossil fuels most likely will continue to be the main feedstock for the hydrogen economy. And there's the rub: Using dirty energy to make clean energy doesn't solve the pollution problem-it just moves it around. As a CO2 reducer, hydrogen stinks, ZING!
Most of the remainder of today's hydrogen is made by electrically splitting water into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen. This year, a PM Breakthrough Award went to GE's Richard Bourgeois for designing an electrolyzer that could drastically reduce the cost of that process. But because fossil fuels generate more than 70 percent of the nation's electrical power, hydrogen produced from the grid would still be a significant source of greenhouse gas. If solar, wind or other renewable resources generate the electricity, hydrogen could be produced without any carbon emissions at all.
So there you have it, those are the problems in the production of hydrogen power. It actually has way more problems such as storage, distribution, and use, but I won't go into those. Hydrogen, I think seems more of a panacea than an actual solution. Maybe if someone developed a car that ran on photosynthesis?
the actual problems with hydrogen aren't the type of water that you use, but in fact, how we get the hydrogen molecules from the water. Currently we use to methods: Fossil Fuels and Electrolysis.
At present, 95 percent of America's hydrogen is produced from natural gas. Through a process called steam methane reformation, high temperature and pressure break the hydrocarbon into hydrogen and carbon oxides — including carbon dioxide, which is released into the atmosphere as a greenhouse gas. Over the next 10 or 20 years, fossil fuels most likely will continue to be the main feedstock for the hydrogen economy. And there's the rub: Using dirty energy to make clean energy doesn't solve the pollution problem-it just moves it around. As a CO2 reducer, hydrogen stinks, ZING!
Most of the remainder of today's hydrogen is made by electrically splitting water into its constituent parts, hydrogen and oxygen. This year, a PM Breakthrough Award went to GE's Richard Bourgeois for designing an electrolyzer that could drastically reduce the cost of that process. But because fossil fuels generate more than 70 percent of the nation's electrical power, hydrogen produced from the grid would still be a significant source of greenhouse gas. If solar, wind or other renewable resources generate the electricity, hydrogen could be produced without any carbon emissions at all.
So there you have it, those are the problems in the production of hydrogen power. It actually has way more problems such as storage, distribution, and use, but I won't go into those. Hydrogen, I think seems more of a panacea than an actual solution. Maybe if someone developed a car that ran on photosynthesis?
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