Perhaps I can add a safety note here
HYDROGEN is EXPLOSIVE
I say this because I see on tonight's news that someone in Nottingham has blown himself up, succumbing to the latest UK craze for making your own diesel fuel from waste cooking oil and methanol.
In terms of the twaddle about using water as a fuel, it is a simple thermodynamic fact that you have to put more energy in than you get back separating the constitutents of water and recombining them.
However the attractiveness of the scheme is the 'clean burn' of the hydrogen, no nasty pollutants.
But wait - water vapour is approximately 500 times as 'powerful' a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.
But some of us don't see an 'energy crisis', just a lack of political will to adopt sensible engineering strategies, using known and proven technologies.
There is more energy in an average atlantic storm than Man has ever used on this planet in his whole collective existance. All that is lacking is the will to collect it.
HYDROGEN is EXPLOSIVE
I say this because I see on tonight's news that someone in Nottingham has blown himself up, succumbing to the latest UK craze for making your own diesel fuel from waste cooking oil and methanol.
In terms of the twaddle about using water as a fuel, it is a simple thermodynamic fact that you have to put more energy in than you get back separating the constitutents of water and recombining them.
However the attractiveness of the scheme is the 'clean burn' of the hydrogen, no nasty pollutants.
But wait - water vapour is approximately 500 times as 'powerful' a greenhouse gas as carbon dioxide.
But some of us don't see an 'energy crisis', just a lack of political will to adopt sensible engineering strategies, using known and proven technologies.
There is more energy in an average atlantic storm than Man has ever used on this planet in his whole collective existance. All that is lacking is the will to collect it.