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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (174605)8/26/2003 11:37:43 PM
From: i-node  Read Replies (1) of 1583871
 
One thing that confuses me about the whole fuel thing is that you still need source of Hydrogen (natural gas is one, oil is another), but this leaves energy that could be derived from carbon unused. (or is that the point?)

You're asking ME? <g>... Hell, I'm a burned out CPA and half-retired software engineer. Maybe there is a chemist around here???

I don't know how much natural gas there is, but I think we would start running out very quickly if we stopped all the carbon derived energy (without replacing it with nuclear).

The Holy Grail, I think, is to get the Hydrogen from water, burn it, and generate more water in the process. The problem is it takes a lot of energy to get the Hydrogen out of water. Except plants can do this efficiently. So they had this guy from MIT trying to figure out how to mimick the chemistry of plants.
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