Universal Hydrogen goes bust
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Well, yes. Color me unsurprised. It was never going to work, for the reasons explained in the Seattle Times article, which were obvious beforehand. I’m even unsurprised that they got enough suckers to put up $100 million for them to “burn through” – as the saying goes, there’s one born every minute.
Well, yes. Color me unsurprised. It was never going to work, for the reasons explained in the Seattle Times article, which were obvious beforehand. I’m even unsurprised that they got enough suckers to put up $100 million for them to “burn through” – as the saying goes, there’s one born every minute.
I suspect not all of that $100 million has vanished into thin air.....
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Yep, running the numbers re volume and storage requirements, as well as structures makes hydrogen aircraft pretty unlikely; when one considers how hydrogen is produced (virtually all is by steam cracking methane) and the energy loss in production it doesn't make economic sense. Yes, we'll hear that it can be produced by solar cell electrolysis and that will solve the production side, but that is a huge infra-structure project, not to mention transportation and storage of the fuel.
I suspect not all of that $100 million has vanished into thin air.....
I suspect not all of that $100 million has vanished into thin air.....
I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why we don’t use all of these wind farms (which in the Midwest US are commonly USING electricity to remain dormant during periods when there is no need for more on the grid) to produce hydrogen by hydrolysis and use the additional capacity to run the pumps to compress it. I know it is problematic to store it and that hydrogen embrittlement is a problem, but there is so much stuff we could do with it as a direct chemical reactant. (Pretending that when one burns hydrogen in air there are not nitrogen oxides and other unsavory byproducts produced is silly.)
Fuel cells work phenomenally well with true zero emmissions…
Fuel cells work phenomenally well with true zero emmissions…
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I can’t, for the life of me, figure out why we don’t use all of these wind farms (which in the Midwest US are commonly USING electricity to remain dormant during periods when there is no need for more on the grid) to produce hydrogen by hydrolysis and use the additional capacity to run the pumps to compress it. I know it is problematic to store it and that hydrogen embrittlement is a problem, but there is so much stuff we could do with it as a direct chemical reactant. (Pretending that when one burns hydrogen in air there are not nitrogen oxides and other unsavory byproducts produced is silly.)
Fuel cells work phenomenally well with true zero emmissions…
Fuel cells work phenomenally well with true zero emmissions…
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