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Originally Posted by ademonrower
Thank you so much for your detailed reply! It's great to be connected with someone who sees the truth behind the facade, and is clearly one of the rare deep-thinking polymaths out there (Eccomodder seems to concentrate them :-) : combining biochemistry, advanced technology and politics... It took me 3 years to get my head around many of the things at this interface (writing time for book). Being a scientist, I unfortunately ended up writing a book for professionals. It set out as a "pop science" thing, but I was continually worried that I wouldn't satisfy the scientist readers with citations to primary literature and scientific detail... so... it became a kind of chimaera (textbook-popscience)... It's the kind of book to dip into now and then, but just reading the ToC tells the story, because I very carefully crafted the chapter titles and subheadings as meaningful phrases. The story of pure-hydrogen economies versus power-to-x economies based on hydrogen carriers is expanded massively on the website, resulting in something that really impressed me: the overall efficiency, factoring in energy and material losses, of the pure-hydrogen infrastructure is worse than that of the e-Fuel one. And, to boot, pure hydrogen requires an enormously expensive, energetically-taxing and short-lived infrastructure compared with e-Fuel. Professional politics combined with the "green lobby" is doing untold damage to quality thinking and, ultimately, hopes for real sustainability, I conclude. I'm flattered that you think the book/website deserve a thread here. Would that be OK in your opinion? I don't want to do blatant self-advertising.
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Thank you very much ademonrower!
I... dont know what to say! Thx!
Not everyone agrees with you... and often; 'The silence is deafening' here too.
A feeling you are all too familiar with.
I need to fully read your interesting site, the links and research the subject more.
I knew batteries were not 'The Answer' Bunny Huggers like to believe, but was/am unaware of just how badly they do environmentally!
The current energy wastage is shocking!
My knowledge on the subject is more the opposite of E-fuels, with the onboard processing of liquid HC's back to H!
(preferably using waste heat and for immediate use)
Elsewhere here there is talk of underground reserves of hydrogen I feel should be drilled for..?
As in; leave the hydrogen stored where it's been stored for eons and control demand with a freaking tap!
For stationary energy requirements my feeling is:
Turn the H into electricity on site and on demand. (with fuel cells..?)
One cant beat the existing electricity grid as a cheap, convenient means of instantly transporting energy..?
For transportation:
The waste heat (from fuel cells?) might be handy for the onsite production of synthetic liquid fuels..?
Or gas that doesn't escape through pipe walls and bugger them up in the process!
ie: Gas compatible with current infrastructure,
I'm guessing the consumers of the gas need to be closeby for this to feasible..?
A link to your site is just a link to a site, as happens all the time. Your book is linked from there.
So I would say go for it!