Re: What are the industrial application of mass produced hydrogen and oxygen?

From: PD (pdraper_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: 22 Feb 2005 09:11:37 -0800

Sea Squid wrote:
> Assume if somebody invents a magic catalyst which help reduce the
cost of
> breaking down water
> into H2 and O2 by 50%. Where are the currently tappable destination
for
> these two gases?

The big news draw if we had a ready source of hydrogen would be fuel
cell cars.
http://4hydrogen.com/index.html

> How
> does the hydrogen plant seperate the two gases?
>
> Thanks.

By supplying energy to dissociate water. Actually, the best technology
for electrolysis turns out to be nuclear power plants. Europe has a
much higher fraction of energy supplied by nuclear power than does the
US, and China is on a path to quickly surpass the US in capacity, as
well. Despite Chernobyl and 3-Mile Island, nuclear power plants are
beginning to re-emerge in power planning in the US.

A catalyst that reduced the energy threshold by 50% AND could produce
in quantity AND did not cost more than the energy cost saved, would be
a boon worth tens of billions of dollars.

PD

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