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2009-03-02 09:04:38
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stop hitting yourself, stophittingyerself...,
2009-03-03 08:24:50
the hydrogen heat economy:
I think "hydrogen economies" are all wet, but if this clever idea ever hits production there might some tangible application for the waste of resources being dumped into hydrogen fuel cells.
The gist is you've got a heat engine that instead of using pressure differentials created by external heat sources to move pistons around and convert "heat" (technically it works just as well cold, it's the temperature gradient that matters) into mechanical energy, you use them to push hydrogen across a membrane and generate electricity. The hydrogen doesn't get used up by being locked back into water and you don't have all the pesky problems associated with producing, storing, transporting, and storing the hydrogen again. It's a closed loop that doesn't waste a finite extractable resource, but instead converts a massive source of nigh-infinite waste into usable energy. There's really something beautiful about that, but the materials science necessary to make it commercial must be daunting.
:: posted by buermann @ 2009-03-02 16:17:43 CST |
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