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To: cirrus who wrote (706467)	10/8/2005 2:19:06 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

water vapor is the biggest green house gas on the planet by orders of magnitude. Compared to storing a useful amount of hydrogen, creating it is trivial. See if you can visualize. If you cannot you cannot have an informed opinion. A cubic foot of water weighs 62.4 lb. and exerts .4333 lbs of pressure per square inch on the bottom of its container at a depth of one foot. 38,986 PSI. for 8.934 kg of hydrogen to occupy 1.333 cubic feet or be at a depth of 89974.613 feet in the ocean. But The greatest ocean depth is 36,200 feet over 11,000 meters! So if one dug a hole 53774.613 feet deep at the bottom of the deepest part of the ocean one could store hydrogen at the same energy density as gasoline. One could store 1268.7 MJ of energy. in 1.3333 cu ft. The energy of 10 gallons of gasoline. 17.040646 miles below sea level and that would require a hole 10.2 miles deep at the deepest place in the ocean. A league is 3 miles. 20,000 leagues is 60K miles. The diameter of the earth at the equator is 7,926.41 miles (12,756.32 kilometers). .. So 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is 52K miles out in space.