[Vision2020] Fuel Cells

[Art Deco aka W. Fox]

Ron,

Thank you very much for the factual information.

Many years ago a small company in southern California developed an
economical method of using solar generated electrical power to produce and
to store hydrogen and oxygen by electrolysis.  Electricity cannot be stored
in large quantities very well or long but hydrogen and oxygen can.  These
gases can then be used to produce electricity on demand.

Guess what?  The small company was bought by a petroleum consortium and
their research disappeared from commercial consideration as did a number of
other promising alternative energy proposals.

Wayne

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Force" <rforce@moscow.com>
To: <vision2020@moscow.com>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 10:15 AM
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Fuel Cells


> The problem with hydrogen as a fuel (as the story alludes to) is that
there
> are no hydrogen wells in nature. Hydrogen exists on earth bound with other
> elements, and it takes energy to separate it. Most of the first generation
> ideas are to manufacture it from petroleum--so don't sell your oil tanker
> stock just yet. Currently, 96% of hydrogen production comes from fossil
> fuels, an 4% from electrolysis.
>
> The atomic energy folks are promoting nuclear reactors to separate
hydrogen
> from water.  INEEL just got $1.2 billion for a new reactor to test the
> concept.
>
> **********************************************
> Ron Force          Moscow ID USA
> rforce@moscow.com
> **********************************************
>
>
> Changing subjects,  I thought that this was a very interesting article on
> hydrogen fuel cells.  Now if I could figure out which of the eventual
> start-ups with survive the process, I'll dump my oil tanker stock.
>
> The technology is promising (mostly over-promised to date) but since oil
> prices won't be down any time soon, there is a significant incentive to
> hasten development.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paul Duffau
>
>
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> NStory/Technology/
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