Re: People giving up SUV gas guzzlers - 34 % demand drop

From: charliew2 (charliew2_at_ev1.net)
Date: 06/06/04 

Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 15:45:41 -0500

deimos wrote:
> Paul F. Dietz wrote:
>
>> Lansdale wrote:
>>
>>> Correct, except Hydrogen is a big rip off since the only economic
>>> (now or future - out of science fiction) source of Hydrogen is
>>> Gasoline.
>>
>>
>> That's odd. For some reason, essentially none of the millions of
>> tons of hydrogen that are produced annually are produced from
>> gasoline.
>>
>> Must be some weird breakdown in the laws of economics.
>>
>> Paul
>
> Extracting it is difficult and there is no infrastructure to do so
> (other than those old 1930's H tanks out in the desert). Until then
> it's ripping hydrogen off hydrocarbon chains in whatever we can use
> and that's gasoline.

If you must rip hydrogen from hydrocarbons, do it before all the
manufacturing steps, and before all of the 2 dozen odd specs must be met.
Several "raw" hydrocarbons come to mind: methane, ethane, ... , straight run
naphtha, etc.

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