Re: Congress Passes H-Prize

I think there is also consideration for putting the
reformer in the car and filling the car up with
methane /alcohol or similar.  This still doesn't get
rid of the carbon, but at least the auto should be
more efficient running on electric -- not sure of the
total efficiency though.

Supposedly China wants or is building thousands of the
pebble reactors to handle their own power needs.  From
what I gather that reactor technology is fairly safe
as the expansion of the pebbles as things heat up tend
to moderate the reactor's radiation flux -- i. e. they
are somewhat self regulating.

--- Sean Lynch <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
> 
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