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I've wondered about this idea for many years now. High School biology is all you need to see that hydrogen production and photosynthesis make a perfect match.
Oxygen and Hydrogen are the only two elements in a molecule of water, and plants have that remarkable ability to use sunlight energy to split off the hydrogen, which is how they produce the oxygen that other life forms need. Thats photosynthesis.
We hear a lot about hydrogen these days, as it is a non-polluting fuel that will have no emissions that contribute to global warming, one of our biggest problem at present. Any other method we know of that can produce hydrogen requires energy and there you go with those grenhouse gases again. Photosynthesis uses only the sun's energy which would be otherwise absorbed the earth so there is no added heat or emissions to cause global warming.
So here is a potential solution to global warming - use POND SCUM to produce hydrogen:
"Hydrogen impermeable covered ponds" with a specific form of algae and by "limiting sulphates" produces hydrogen that can be collected.
They have a small pond doing that now, but the amount of hydrogen is not enough to It is not yet efficient enough to be a worthwhile process, but adjustments can be made to make it work better.
The article says that when those improvements are made, a 100 by 100 mile patch of ground could produce enough hydrogen to run 200 million vehicles. We have much more land than that devoted to oil refineries in North America...
They did not say when a workable system will be operational, and they didn't say what the obstacles are to getting there. I bet they don't work very hard on it... while there is still oil to burn.
I've wondered about this idea for many years now. High School biology is all you need to see that hydrogen production and photosynthesis make a perfect match.
Oxygen and Hydrogen are the only two elements in a molecule of water, and plants have that remarkable ability to use sunlight energy to split off the hydrogen, which is how they produce the oxygen that other life forms need. Thats photosynthesis.
We hear a lot about hydrogen these days, as it is a non-polluting fuel that will have no emissions that contribute to global warming, one of our biggest problem at present. Any other method we know of that can produce hydrogen requires energy and there you go with those grenhouse gases again. Photosynthesis uses only the sun's energy which would be otherwise absorbed the earth so there is no added heat or emissions to cause global warming.
So here is a potential solution to global warming - use POND SCUM to produce hydrogen:
"Hydrogen impermeable covered ponds" with a specific form of algae and by "limiting sulphates" produces hydrogen that can be collected.
They have a small pond doing that now, but the amount of hydrogen is not enough to It is not yet efficient enough to be a worthwhile process, but adjustments can be made to make it work better.
The article says that when those improvements are made, a 100 by 100 mile patch of ground could produce enough hydrogen to run 200 million vehicles. We have much more land than that devoted to oil refineries in North America...
They did not say when a workable system will be operational, and they didn't say what the obstacles are to getting there. I bet they don't work very hard on it... while there is still oil to burn.
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