Quote:
Originally Posted by RustyLugNut
But if throw away electricity is available, why not use it?...
|
Use it yes, waste it, no. Using lots of energy to create a little hydrogen just because the energy would otherwise be wasted doesn't sound like a good idea. That excess energy could be channelled into other processes that unavoidably need lots of energy. Like say aluminium production or water desalination.
Or even powering the manufacture of additional green technology.
And if electric cars were commonplace then there probably wouldn't be that excess geothermal energy available to throw away.