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Strategies & Market Trends : Ask Vendit Off-Topic Questions -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Vendit™ who wrote (7869)	4/17/2005 10:12:08 AM
From: Walkingshadow	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 8752

My inorganic chemistry days are long gone, but as I recall producing hydrogen from water is not even remotely as easy or efficient or cheap as that article would have you believe. It's not like you just put some electrodes in the sun and they produce all the hydrogen you could ever want. <<Hydrogen fuel is now created through an electrolysis process. Electrodes are stimulated by light, which split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.>> I have no clue how sunlight could convert water to hydrogen. Lotta handwaving there I think. I'd love to hear the details. I used to follow technologies like this (PRTN and such), but that was long ago, so I'm sure I am not up to speed. But if all you gotta do is plant some electrodes in the sun and out comes cheap hydrogen, why spend billions to plunder an irreplaceable resource in Alaska? Why not just plant a bunch of electrodes in the sun and mothball the refineries and oil tankers forever? Maybe that's at least part of the reason why that article was written 4 years ago, and I have yet to see a hydrogen powered BMW on the roads. T