Re: Viable hydrogen vehicle by 2010

From: Tkalbfus1 (tkalbfus1_at_aol.com)
Date: 09/25/04 

Date: 25 Sep 2004 18:05:11 GMT

>I do believe that if the end of cheap oil is inevitable, and the best
>alternative is twice as expensive as oil is today - say nuclear power
>plants.

A nuclear power plant is twice as expensive because of safety considerations.
if the power plant was built where safety was not a consideration, say on a
remote Pacific Atoll, then safety would not be a consideration and the only
consideration would be the most economic way to produce power with a nuclear
power plant. If the power plant is totally dedicated to producing hydrogen,
then the hydrogen can be shipped to where its needed much like oil is shipped
today. Alot of oil is drilled in remote places too. The Indian point power
plant is a case in point of what not to do. the power plant is right in the
middle of a populated area where million would have to be evacuated if
something were to go wrong. On a remote Pacific island, this is not the case
and a nuclear power plant can be built and operated cheaply. Nuclear reactions
are much more energetic than chemical ones, so if a nuclear power plant can
compete on an equal basis with a coal fired plant for instance, it would be
cheaper. That electricity in such a remote place would have nowhere to go
except into the production of hydrogen, so what really the plant would produce
is hydrogen, it would be a nuclear powered hydrogen plant. the fact that a lot
of a little energy was wasted in the production of hydrogen would not matter to
the customers as the only form of energy that would be available to them from
this power plant would be in the form of hydrogen. Energy would be wasted, but
then alot of energy is wasted throughout the universe, and it bothers hardly
anyone that the Sun radiates most of its energy out into space.

Tom

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