Microbial Hydrogen Production
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Better than ethanol but that was just stupid in the first place. Still needs farm land, fertilizers and family value voters to grow the stuff. I still say Nukular is the way to go.
Edit: I guess it does say it will run off of waste materials but there really isn't waste. Waste now is tilled back under and basically mulched. I wonder how much it would affect soil quality to remove that waste material from the growing cycle? Either way a more promising approach than we are on today.
Edit: I guess it does say it will run off of waste materials but there really isn't waste. Waste now is tilled back under and basically mulched. I wonder how much it would affect soil quality to remove that waste material from the growing cycle? Either way a more promising approach than we are on today.
What I can't fit in my compost bin goes in our green waste recycle bin every week that gets picked up.
If that bin of lawn trimmings, leaves and weeds could power my truck/car I'd be stoked.
But you know that in the furure if this takes off some asshat company will start clearing rainforests for microbe food to make hydrogen.
My leaves and yard trimmings stay in the yard. Banana peels, apple cores and any other plant waste gets chucked into my little patch of woods. I consider it carbon sequestration. Now if I could generate energy from the 50lbs of junk mail I get every day I'd be all set.What I can't fit in my compost bin goes in our green waste recycle bin every week that gets picked up.
If that bin of lawn trimmings, leaves and weeds could power my truck/car I'd be stoked.
But you know that in the furure if this takes off some asshat company will start clearing rainforests for microbe food to make hydrogen.
That is probably the first internet video that didn't make me more dumbester.
And population control.
imperialism only goes so far.
you need to get your kommie on for lasting results
Great video. As every human not a member of OPEC I would Love to see stabilized oil prices.
I believe that Hydrogen is the fuel of the future but there needs to be a cost effective means of obtaining it. This microbial process shown is producing CO2 as the bacterial eats, but they don't mention how much CO2 it is creating. Overall I like the idea but I would like to see a ratio of Hydrogen created versus CO2 created.
It's going to produce the same CO2 (or greater, since it's not producing the nasties like CO) for the amount gross energy used, but it's Carbon that's on a shorter cycle and importantly it doesn't require (much of) a secondary energy input. Current processes not only release the CO2 from processing the ethanol/methanol but also the CO2 from whatever it is that is powering that process (gas/coal/oil fired powerplant).
