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Massacure

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5. Piggy backing on your thoughts about hydrogen...

Reply to NNadir (Original post)

Tue Sep 6, 2016, 01:40 AM

Sep 2016

I've never really understood the fascination around using hydrogen as a transportation fuel. Come to think of it, I don't really understand the point of fermenting corn into ethanol either. Wouldn't it be easier to gasify agricultural waste (corn husks, turkey offal, cow shit, whatever), and then run that syngas through a Fischer-Tropsch reaction?

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Um, how much hydrogen could the $2.2 billion Ivanpah solar thermal plant produce? [View all] NNadir Sep 2016 OP

I didn't read the whole thing, but I noticed this error: progree Sep 2016 #1

Thanks, I apparently have typos there. I will correct the numbers. NNadir Sep 2016 #2

No problem. I posted something about 1/2 as long last night that had about 4 errors like that progree Sep 2016 #4

Monju and the nuclear fuel cycle kristopher Sep 2016 #3

Piggy backing on your thoughts about hydrogen... Massacure Sep 2016 #5

You are on to something; and so are many of the world's scientists. NNadir Sep 2016 #6

The Price of Solar Is Declining to Unprecedented Lows progree Sep 2016 #7

Solar is still and always will be useless. NNadir Sep 2016 #8