#3/ This New Breakthrough Could Make Hydrogen Fuel
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Posted On: 04/19/2017 11:22:30 PM
#3/ This New Breakthrough Could Make Hydrogen Fuel Feasible
A report has been making the rounds over the past few days, involving the advancing interactive use of three new energy sources. You can read the full version on Clean Technica, by clicking here. But here’s the gist.
The report shows a new, energy-efficient process for extracting hydrogen fuel from biomass. But before we get to that, some background is necessary.
The central appeal of using hydrogen as car fuel is that burning hydrogen produces only two byproducts: water and heat. Both could potentially be used in the car, to heat and humidify the passenger compartment, if necessary.
But hydrogen as car fuel has yet to take off, because pure hydrogen is very difficult to extract. The same thing that makes hydrogen such a potent fuel – its extremely high tendency to react with anything around it – also makes it impossible to find pure hydrogen in nature.
It’s always bound up in something else.
In America, for example, most commercial hydrogen is extracted from natural gas. And breaking up that gas to extract pure hydrogen from it can take more energy than you can get from then burning the hydrogen in a car…
Meaning that just using that natural gas as car fuel makes a lot more sense.
Of course, using natural gas as a source of hydrogen also raises some environmental difficulties that the use of hydrogen was supposed to solve in the first place.
That’s where this new breakthrough comes in…
https://oilandenergyinvestor.com/2017/03/this...s-forever/
A report has been making the rounds over the past few days, involving the advancing interactive use of three new energy sources. You can read the full version on Clean Technica, by clicking here. But here’s the gist.
The report shows a new, energy-efficient process for extracting hydrogen fuel from biomass. But before we get to that, some background is necessary.
The central appeal of using hydrogen as car fuel is that burning hydrogen produces only two byproducts: water and heat. Both could potentially be used in the car, to heat and humidify the passenger compartment, if necessary.
But hydrogen as car fuel has yet to take off, because pure hydrogen is very difficult to extract. The same thing that makes hydrogen such a potent fuel – its extremely high tendency to react with anything around it – also makes it impossible to find pure hydrogen in nature.
It’s always bound up in something else.
In America, for example, most commercial hydrogen is extracted from natural gas. And breaking up that gas to extract pure hydrogen from it can take more energy than you can get from then burning the hydrogen in a car…
Meaning that just using that natural gas as car fuel makes a lot more sense.
Of course, using natural gas as a source of hydrogen also raises some environmental difficulties that the use of hydrogen was supposed to solve in the first place.
That’s where this new breakthrough comes in…
https://oilandenergyinvestor.com/2017/03/this...s-forever/
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