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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: RetiredNow who wrote (219064)	2/13/2005 12:23:27 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 1575126

"The technology already exists, they just need to bring the price down." That is the easy part. That is only a matter of volume production, they are ready for that. The hard part is infrastructure. How to generate the hydrogen? Solar, nuclear, something else? TI had developed some spherical solar cells in the early '80s. Put them in a potassium hydroxide solution and leave 'em in the sun and they produced a hydrogen-oxygen mixture. A nuclear plant could produce hydrogen via electrolysis or directly via thermal cracking. And so on. Storage might not be a problem, a solution of sodium borohydride offers an attractive solution, although it would mean transporting the spent solution back to be recharged, so that adds to cost. But the energy density is close to gasoline and borax is cheap, reasonably non-toxic and non-flammable.