Re: Way OT - thoughts on "Peak Oil"

Leon wrote:

"Pete C." <aux3.DOH.4@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:44036FC0.175B1D9B@xxxxxxxxxxx

You need to find a power source to power the hydrogen production first.

What are you saying here? My neighbor is for the 3rd time overseeing the
construction of a hydrogen producing facility in South East Texas. This
being the 3rd that he has worked on I suspect that a power source for
producing hydrogen has been accomplished.

Nope. The only two common ways to produce hydrogen that I'm aware of are
to process it our of nat gas or electrolysis to separate it from water.
With nat gas you are still relying on a processed fossil fuel and from
water requires large amounts of electricity to produce the hydrogen and
has low efficiency.

Perhaps electrolysis of hydrogen might be a reasonable thing to do to
recover / store some excess power generation from off peak times or
intermittent sources like wind or solar. For production of hydrogen as
an energy carrier for use in say vehicles about the only practical
sources of the energy are nuclear or tidal / wave power.

Pete C.
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