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Old 11-11-2011, 04:09 PM   #21 (permalink)
Clev
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Originally Posted by UFO View Post
A catalyst will do nothing for a process that even if perfect, will never make sense from an efficiency standpoint. Come on, can't we all agree there is no future in hydrogen, at least any we want to live in?
Dunno, haven't really studied it. But if you've got a bunch of wind turbines running at night, producing more than you can use, is catalyzing hydrogen that much less efficient than charging batteries, pushing water uphill or spinning a massive flywheel to try to store the energy for the next day? If "all the wind is concentrated in the flyover states," as the anti-AE crowd says, then rather than trying to transmit it thousands of miles across wires, why not make a liquid fuel that can be used in local transportation?

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