hydrogen fueling station in D.C.

Nov 11, 2004 07:08

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watchreader November 11 2004, 09:30:40 UTC
Which just leads us to ask:

Where do they get the fuel for the hydrogen? An oil/coal-based power plant, perhaps?

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spikeflare November 11 2004, 11:28:22 UTC
currently, i think all you need is some source of power, but that can also come from wind, solar, oil, coal, hydroelectric, or nuclear plants. some crazy germans and/or australians figureed out how to extract hydrogen from steam cuz from concentrating sunlight. some other crazy dude a berkeley can also get a bunch of algae to produce a liter of hydrogen gas per hour. there are loopholes but they can be worked around.

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watchreader November 11 2004, 12:42:56 UTC
yea, I'm just illustrating that the vast, vast majority of our electricity comes from pollution sources to begin with, so by switching over to hydrogen, we're just shifting the gasoline consumption to those pollution sources, instead of eliminating them altogether.

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brian48216 November 11 2004, 15:00:58 UTC
in china, they use pebble bed nuclear reactors that produce electricity and also when you run steam over super hot surfaces, you get hydrogen out of it.

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watchreader November 11 2004, 16:01:40 UTC
In China, everything's also polluted.

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brian48216 November 13 2004, 02:26:53 UTC
that may be true but they don't have a huge oil lobby controlling shit and they recognize the need to get shit cleaned up so they can look nice for Beijing 2008.

And although China may be polluted, considering the population of china compared to the US, the CO2 emmissions per person compared to USA is amazingly small.

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