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Originally Posted by UFO
I'll bet there is little to no advantage to making hydrogen from natural gas over direct combustion.
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I already looked into it, back in 2006. Whats the logic behind burning off about 20% of the energy in the base fuel, releasing the CO2, making an easy to handle gas into a difficult to handle gas and increasing the price per BTU about a dozen times?
Natural gas makes an all around better motor fuel than Hydrogen hands down.
One of the claims I have herd for why we dont use hydrogen as a motive fuel is "there is no large scale production". Nothing could be further from the truth. In the US alone we produce millions of pounds of pounds of hydrogen every year for use in ammonia production and petrochemical operations.
"they should be called hydrogen heaters because you make more heat then anything else, the split water is almost a byproduct".
I do like that statement. It sums up the subject in question pretty well.