Re: Hydrogen is too difficult.


"BobG" <bobgardner@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ivor suggests:
> It can be distilled from sewage, from crops, from surplus and waste
> foodstuffs.
> ====================
> What do you burn to do the distilling? (hint... cant use oil.....)
>

Well, you'd have to use some sort of vegetable material such as chaff from
the growing of grain, or biogas from the decaying hpousehold waste. The
Brazilians managed quite well on "gasohol" for a while until the economic
circumstances changed and made it less profitable.

There are also possibilities of genetically engineered organisms being
produced which will allow natural one-stage fermentations up to quite high
sg's combined with membrane or centrifuge separation techniques.

If we combine the use of 1-litre cars with the possibility that at some
point in the future the price of oil is going to go through the roof, then I
can see it as a really practical alternative to gasoline.

As I said, the Brazilians managed to do it. Mostly on sugar-cane.

Anything'd better than handling and storing hydrogen.

It's going to be another Space Shuttle.

Ivor.




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