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There is also no reason that biodiesel or biomass-methane could not be used as the feed stock for this system |
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And, solar, tidal energy, etc .. might also lend themselves to this hybrid gasification system |
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Concentrated sunlight speeds up chemistry quite a bit. For me it took the dye out of taxfree heating-oil real fast using the parabolic mirror in the link. The resulting Diesel oil was just as good as the stuff from the gas station. (For educational purposes only, do not use in vehicles.) |
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Storing hydrogen is a pain. Propane or Butane behave much better because they liquify at room temperature and reasonable pressure. Alcoholes burn cleaner in combustion engines. I don't know the chemistry, supposedly because of the extra oxygen. |
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[kbecker] I agree storing hydrogen is a pain particularly if you want it in liquid form. I imagined the hydrogen, co2 mix would be stored in a big gas holder as a gas. I was just worried that hydrogen is a very small molecule and might leak out of the gas holder. I think liquid hydrogen is a real non starter personally. |
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Not sure what the benefit is here... |
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If you want to improve efficiency and reduce costs by concentrating the available energy in a more potent form (not sure hydrogen is particularly useful given today's infrastructure, but never mind that for now) then you could do steam reformation, but will find that it is far more economical to use some of your fossil fuel supply for the purpose. |
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If the desire is to produce a clean-burning non-carbon alternative, then how do you propose to deal with the vast quantities of CO2 generated by the reformation process? |
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If all you want to do is store renewable energy as hydrogen, then electrolysis of water would be a better bet since your wind farm is already generating electricity. This also does not result in the generation of any CO2, so is a plus for the global warming crowd. |
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