Re: Congress Passes H-Prize

Bill Clawson wrote:
> It's a loser technology for many reasons.  Most
> especially because if it's storage density problems,
> and hydrogen generation issues -- the most common
> method of creating hydrogen gas is by passing natural
> gas through a reformer, so the end result is that your
> shifting cars away from oil and into natural gas.  The
> only interesting technology along the lines of
> hydrogen generation that has caught my eye involves
> titanium oxide ceramics used in a hydrogen generating
> solar panel.  There are several links on the subject
> if you search google with "titanium oxide hydrogen
> solar".  Here is an example:
>
> <http://www.b2i.us/profiles/investor/fullpage.asp?b=1&LangID=1&BzID=546&to=cp&ID=1285>
>
>
>   
Thermochemical conversion of water using nuclear heat as made possible
by the higher temperatures of some pebble bed machines seems interesting
as well. From there it seems like the best thing to do is to make other
stuff like liquid fuels and ammonium nitrate rather than trying to
transport the hydrogen around.