Hydrogen: Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
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Re: Hydrogen: Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
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#4The HN bot took "Hidden" off the front of this headline, which in this case is probably not the right call on its part. The hidden part is important!
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Re: Hydrogen: Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
#5Yeah, in natural gas deposits
Re: Hydrogen: Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
#6Yeah, in natural gas deposits
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Re: Hydrogen: Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
#7Yeah, in natural gas deposits
Natural gas is made of carbon, no?
Re: Hydrogen: Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
#8Why this is interesting, we already have such a fuel, we found it 80 years ago and its called Thorium. And Uranium isn't bad either.
And we don't have to find it, every rare earth mine thorws out absurd amounts of it. We have to much of it without even trying.
We just to dumb and lazy to anything with it.
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#9Is hydrogen really more renewable though? It releases energy when combined with Oxygen to make water, and it requires energy to split it from water (electrolysis). In this sense, it's not fundamentally different from fuel, which releases energy and carbon when burned, but requires energy (sunlight) and carbon (CO2) to re-create via photosynthesis. The involvement of carbon is a difference, but either way it's a 2-way street; we can't use either of them forever without reversing the process at some point.
Re: Hydrogen: Does Earth hold vast stores of a renewable, carbon-free fuel?
#10Yeah, in natural gas deposits
Natural gas is made of carbon, no?
Carbon and hydrogen. CH4 - I believe it's true that most hydrogen today comes out of natural gas deposits [1]. Also helium for that matter [2].
[1]: https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-production-na...