Re: Electrolysis is not always ludicrous...

Don Lancaster wrote: 
Peter Lowrie wrote:

Dear Mike

Mike McWilliams wrote:

What I would like to see is a manufactured equivalent of the electron transport chain in plants, coupled to a chemical reaction which stores hydrogen in hydrocarbons or even sugars 



...Is this to say that sugar contains Hydrogen, how would one go about
extracting Hydrogen from sugar?


The energy required to extact the hydrogen would vastly exceed that of the recovered hydrogen.


But in this case it's a more low energy approach because we wouldn't be making H2 but H+ in a solution, then taking the protons and adding them to carbon backbones hopefully provided by CO2 available in the atmosphere (or I suppose a controlled atmosphere, think attaching this to the gas outflow of beer fermenters or something)...

starches can be banked for reasonably long periods of time with few containment issues.
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