Comments on: A View of Our Automotive Future http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/09/10/a-view-of-our-automotive-future/ Operating systems. Broadband. Issues. Reviews ... tech info you can use. Mon, 13 Oct 2008 11:31:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: shotsky http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/2007/09/10/a-view-of-our-automotive-future/#comment-8 shotsky Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:13:11 +0000 http://blog.scotsnewsletter.com/?p=68#comment-8 Existing nuclear power plants can be retrofitted to produce hydrogen. They already use water for cooling, which heats the water. It 'might' be possible to extract hydrogen from water with low levels of radiation to help reduce nuclear waste mass. Lastly, smaller, safer (truly fail-safe) reactors could be built near abundant water sources to produce hydrogen directly. Salt water could be used to create hydrogen, producing a waste product which should be usable in further processes. And utililizing hydrogen for energy produces - uh, water. If we were just now discovering oil, and thought about the difficulty of digging it out of the ground, then piping or hauling the crude oil around the world to refineries, then piping and hauling gasoline and diesel around the whole world, we might think it unworkable - dangerous, expensive, ecologically damaging, and fodder for wars. John Existing nuclear power plants can be retrofitted to produce hydrogen. They already use water for cooling, which heats the water. It ‘might’ be possible to extract hydrogen from water with low levels of radiation to help reduce nuclear waste mass.

Lastly, smaller, safer (truly fail-safe) reactors could be built near abundant water sources to produce hydrogen directly. Salt water could be used to create hydrogen, producing a waste product which should be usable in further processes. And utililizing hydrogen for energy produces - uh, water.

If we were just now discovering oil, and thought about the difficulty of digging it out of the ground, then piping or hauling the crude oil around the world to refineries, then piping and hauling gasoline and diesel around the whole world, we might think it unworkable - dangerous, expensive, ecologically damaging, and fodder for wars.

John

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