Re: Vast new energy source almost here: Solar hydrogen fuel dream

From: Dr. Jai Maharaj (usenet_at_mantra.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 03:23:27 GMT

In article <7rCdnRFeUo-YdrLcRVn-pQ@magma.ca>,
 "Dave Gower" <davegow.removethis@magma.ca> posted:
 
> Dr. Jai Maharaj wrote
>
> > Australian scientists predict that a revolutionary new
> > way to harness the power of the sun to extract clean and
> > almost unlimited energy supplies from water will be a
> > reality within seven years.
> >
> > Using special titanium oxide ceramics that harvest
> > sunlight and split water to produce hydrogen fuel
 
> This isn't a new story, although that particular item may be recent. But
> there's another way to convert solar energy into hydrogen, which is to use
> the temperature difference between surface and deep water at the tropics,
> and produce hydrogen. Since the amount of solar energy arriving each day
> over tropical oceans vastly exceeds the world's energy use for the
> foreseeable future, the potential is huge. The best part is that the ocean
> acts as the collector, so you don't need huge solar arrays like you would
> with this technology. In addition, the mixing of the water would increase
> the amount of biological activity in a part of the ocean that's quite
> sterile.
>
> The downside is that one would have to maintain huge floating platforms,
> which would need to be stabilized against wind and current to keep them out
> of shipping lanes, from running aground etc. But not too difficult.

The military would never allow such an operation
here in Hawaii, you think?

Jai Maharaj
http://www.mantra.com/jai
Om Shanti

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