<div>There already are methods to store vast amounts of solar energy via thermal storage...The technological options for a renewable low carbon energy future are abundant...Read below...</div>
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<div>If this MIT process can efficiently generate large quantities of hydrogen that can be stored and distributed to internal combustion vehicles, it has applications far beyond fuel cells... I wonder if I misunderstand this new technology, given this potential is not mentioned, that I read, in this article. Is this also a new kind of fuel cell under discussion? Any electric source, from what I read, could generate hydrogen via this process. </div>
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<div>Nuclear electric power could generate hydrogen via this process to power fuel cells or internal combustion engines for cars and trucks... Maybe this technology is not scalable to this size...</div>
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<div>Of course it is already known that in the high temperatures inside nuclear reactors there are methods of more efficiently generating hydrogen, and nuclear fusion, if finally made practical and affordable, could greatly solve the energy/climate change problem... We construct little suns for energy, with abundant fuel, deuterium/tritium... Seems too good to be true, but nonetheless long term ten billion or more dollars will be spent (unless...) on one of the greatest technological construction projects in history, ITER:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.iter.org">http://www.iter.org</a></div>
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<div>NASA can afford to launch the shuttle with exorbitant inefficiently generated quanties of hydrogen, because the taxpayers foot the bill... Efficient hydrogen generation is a breakthrough...</div>
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<div>Actually, we don't need miracle new technologies to power many homes in the US via renewables.... Solar by day, wind by night; this could be business as usual now for millions of consumers, if only the marketplace or government or both had invested earlier. </div>
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<div>T. Boone Pickens, with his "Pickens Plan," is already pushing a wind/solar/natural gas combination for immediate (next ten years) roll out on a massive scale, using natural gas now used for electricity generation, for internal combustion engines, rather than oil sourced gasoline (get the US off foreign oil!), while electricity that was generated via natural gas (Avista uses significant natural gas for electricity) is generated by large scale wind and solar roll out... New electric power distribution systems would need to be constructed... Think WWII scale mobilization of private and public institutions..</div>
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<div>Solar energy in large amounts can be stored to use at night, via thermal storage (molten salt, or?), discussed below:</div>
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<div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/earth/15sola.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/15/science/earth/15sola.html</a></div>
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<p>"You take the energy the sun is putting into the earth that day, store it and capture it, put it into the reservoir, and use it on demand," said Terry Murphy, president and chief executive of SolarReserve, a company backed in part by <a title="More information about United Technologies Corporation" href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/united_technologies_corporation/index.html?inline=nyt-org"><font color="#004276">United Technologies</font></a>, the Hartford conglomerate. </p>
<p>---------</p>At Black & Veatch, a builder of power plants, Larry Stoddard, the manager of renewable energy consulting, said that with a molten salt design, "your turbine is totally buffered from the vagaries of the sun." </div>
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<div>Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett</div>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/5/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kai Eiselein</b> <<a href="mailto:fotopro63@hotmail.com">fotopro63@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:</span>
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<div>How many people think big power companies, coal producers and oil companies will allow this to come to market?<br> <br><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html" target="_blank">http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html</a><br>
<br> <br>My guess, they won't and they will either use legislation to stop individual users, or they will purchase the patent and bury the technology until they can exploit it after they've bled the country dry of current sources.<br>
If MIT really cares about the good of mankind, rather than the almighy dollar, they will just put the instruction/process on the web for anyone/everyone to use and improve upon.<br><span class="ad"><br>
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