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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (5479)8/30/2002 10:40:19 AM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (3) of 89467
 
>>we could release the oxygen by plan and counter the greenhouse effect from world industrialization <<

That dog doesn't hunt -- you lose the same amount of oxygen when they are recombined in the fuel cell.

Re solar energy for hydrolysis -- on a large scale it is simply inconcievable now -- unless some discovery makes solar cells cost a fraction of what they do now and many times more efficient -- but it all comes back to my orginal objection.

You've got the renewable source -- in this case solar -- why go to the added expense and incur the additional energy losses to convert that into hydrogen in the first place -- use the source directly??

Moreover, if it is decided that the energy is better "stored" before being used -- why not look at a wider variety of alternatives for storage -- why hyrdogen and fuel cells?

Which leads my stream of consciousness to something else that might have a GREAT deal more pratctical import for the cost of providing energy: STORAGE technology in general --
this is one of the huge costs of providing electricity to customers -- precious little can be stored -- it has to be produced for consumption on demand and that time-varying demand is highly non-linear => that there is a large amount of investment in capacity that is utilized for relatively short periods of time throughout the year. If a more convenient and less costly storage mechanism could be found -- without the current attendant conversion losses -- we could save trillions of dollars on energy annually.
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