View Single Post
Old May 21st, 2008, 11:05 AM   #14
Jack Kelly
Regular Crew
 
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: London, UK
Posts: 149
Quote:
Originally Posted by Richard Alvarez View Post
but the energy necessary for hydrogen to be taken from seawater can be generated by tidal/wind/solar energy typically associated with seaside locations. So potentially the model for positively net efficient "Refining"/extraction exists.
Sure, I don't doubt that it would be possible to produce hydrogen on a commercial scale. However, I'm still fairly sure that it's more efficient to use tidal/wind/solar to produce electricity, send that through the existing AC grid and charge batteries in cars rather than to produce hydrogen. And efficiency really counts when you need all the energy you can get, and for the least cost.

Here's an article which addresses a different problem of a "hydrogen economy" - i.e. that fuel cells aren't delivering on their promise:

http://climateprogress.org/2008/03/0...re-still-dead/

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Standing
Will there be a broadcast television industry after 2009?
Yeah, very good question.

Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Standing
I don't know anyone under the age of 30 who watches T.V. anymore
Well, here in the UK, I certainly know a fair few people who still watch TV (both over and under 30). But many of those who watch TV don't watch ads any more because they watch using some form of digital video recorder. And the advertisers are catching on to this trend.
Jack Kelly is offline   Reply With Quote