Splitting the sea (1 Viewer)

[Tapxe]

Sounds better than nuclear power...

UOW scientists have developed a novel way to turn sea water into hydrogen, for a sustainable and clean fuel source.
Using this method, as little as five litres of sea water per day would produce enough hydrogen to power an average-sized home and an electric car for one day.

Splitting the sea: turning ocean water into hydrogen fuel - Latest News @ UOW


http://phys.org/news/2013-06-sea-ocean-hydrogen-fuel.html#jCp

 

[Doobsdemons]

so 80 million occupied home in US...roughly 80 million gallons of water a day...29 billion two hundred gallons of water a year....that's a lot of water paw paw...I'm not counting stupid electric cars since there are like 50 in the US
may be ok, there is about 643 Quadrillion gallons of water in teh Gulf

 

[soupcan dan]

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let there be fuel !!!

 

[Rickboy]

Hydrogen, in this case, is not an energy "source". It is a storage medium. You don't get it without putting energy into it. I want to know how many units of energy you get out of it for every unit you put in. You'll need a good infrastructure to move it around if you want to produce it centrally and get it into peoples homes or cars.

However, that doesn't make this an insignificant discovery. Depending on the amount of energy needed, you could use this as a storage medium for solar powered homes instead of a battery. Solar power would provide the home with power and create hydrogen for consumption at night.

 

[superchuck500]

What a perfect way to counter rising sea levels!

 

[Tapxe]

so 80 million occupied home in US...roughly 80 million gallons of water a day...29 billion two hundred gallons of water a year....that's a lot of water paw paw...I'm not counting stupid electric cars since there are like 50 in the US
may be ok, there is about 643 Quadrillion gallons of water in teh Gulf

My thought was that you could build a plant near the water that could supply to the existing grid. At least use those to offset nuclear as those plants scare the carp out of me.

 

[SaintBrad]

The real question is, how long till the sea dries up or is half its size? 50 years?

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[ktulu909]

http://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/geophysics/question157.htm

I don't see a shortage of water being an issue.

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[birdog]

HowStuffWorks "How much water is there on Earth?"

I don't see a shortage of water being an issue.

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Not an issue?......less water means less air.....or you want this?

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[Superfan]

Not an issue?......less water means less air.....or you want this?

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[Cajun Mike]

I thought the by product of burning hygrogen and oxygen was water. Explain less water less air!

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[Taurus]

I thought the by product of burning hygrogen and oxygen was water. Explain less water less air!

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Interesting notation.

You do get water as a result.

So let's say the process doesn't take more energy to split the seawater than is feasible.

Under widespread use, in a city like Los Angeles, what would it do to the ambient humidity? Where do the dissolved minerals go? Would your tailpipe have a stalactite of rime hanging off of it?

 

[sinner mike]

Actually there are businesses that are looking to desalinate water for the purpose of extracting the minerals. Could be a nice reciprocal business model.

 

[Bayouman007]

so in a couple of decades we lose our main supply of food because all the sealife dies because of the salt content in our oceans. interesting..

Dead Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

lets just go ahead and end humanity why dont we...

I am disapointed in our energy and medical research scientists because they just suck. Need to start thinking differently... the answer is solar and always has been, windmills, watermills are both better options than taking away our seawater...

 

[redlandssaintsson]

Guys guys guys, it's fake. There's no way a place called "Wollongong" is real.