YJ02
Well Known GateFan
LOL @ the propaganda! How easy is it to create hydrogen? Well, take an ordinary D sized battery, attach a wire to both poles of the battery, then put them in an ordinary glass of water. Bubbles will be seen rising from both leads. One is releasing pure hydrogen, the other pure oxygen. Simple. Swap out the battery with a solar cell, and there you have it. This weird scenario where you have plants separating it out using chemicals and complicated processes is just to prime the public for building huge hydrogen producing plants at considerable taxpayer cost. The reality of it eliminates the large corporations. Technically speaking. most single family homes have enough surface area on their roofs to generate significant amounts of hydrogen using solar cells, enough to fuel a vehicle. In addition to that, fuel cells can power the home as well. The reasons for not telling Average Joe this is because profit is eliminated.
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Saying that the hydrogen is "oxidized" simply means that it is bound to oxygen. It can easily be liberated using a very small charge. More precisely, it takes 15.89 megajoules per liter of water.
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All of the new tech and resource possibilities are great, but if our infrastructure is not kept up and enhanced, we just may kill ourselves before we get to a better way. This happened today, they say it melted the interstate