Re: Solar breakthrough - when?

From: Tkalbfus1 (tkalbfus1_at_aol.com)
Date: 08/18/04 

Date: 18 Aug 2004 17:27:34 GMT

>One way to deliver hydrogen to the North is to drop a pipeline along the
>ocean
>bottom averaging 3 miles in depth. The hydrogen is then compressed to the
>same
>pressure as the water at a depth of three miles. As the pipe goes to
>shallower
>water, the walls of the pipe get thicker to hold in the internal pressure.
>The
>pipeline rises out of the water near a large city where their are many
>customers for the hydrogen. The power plant is a few thousand miles away.

By the way, if you perform the electrolysis at a depth of 3 miles beneath the
sea level, you don't need to compress the hydrogen. You simply collect the
hydrogen and feed it into the pipe displacing all the water out. The pipe runs
along the bottom of the ocean at an average depth of 3 miles until it comes
across a continental shelf. The pipeline climbs the walls of the continental
shelf or goes straight up to a floating surface platform. The walls of the pipe
get thicker at the pipe ascends to contain the hydrogen. At the top a number of
things can happen to the hydrogen, it could be liquified and shipped somewhere,
it could be used to make methane and then liquified and shipped somewhere, it
could be piped directly to a distribution network that feeds into customer's
homes, it could be run through a giant fuel cell and have the electricity
produced distributed over powerlines.

Tom

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