Original Root source – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20269613
In his interview, Mr. Hammond touched briefly on the subject of Hydrogen powered vehicles.
This has been 1 of the items on my 2 Do List. Discussion time – Hydrogen fuel cell powered vehicles great idea once the issue of storing the fuel problem gets resolved.
With a major caveat of course on the subject.
NRGY in all it’s forms and use requires a conversion between it’s physical potential properties to kenetic ones. The mechanism in which it does this is through Thermodynamic laws, especially through the commonly known phrase of the Conservation of NRGY.
Right now as it stands, using fossil fuels creates by products in the atmosphere that impacts the quality of air. Much attention has been put on this issue and no need to further rehash this point. The other one obviously is the ground level impact in all forms – this one is still on the drawing board and in the public debating arenas around the globe.
What I would like to point out is this. While Hydrogen has the best chances I believe of supplanting fossil fuels in the next hundred years, it too will have challenges in terms of impact.
Here’s my take. What we know is that hydrogen is one of the cleanest fuels that leaves the least environmental footprint impact because the combustion by product is water. However it is incorrect in saying that it is a total zero-emission reaction.
What we need to consider is the equation of the Conservation of NRGY. In plain words – Nothing gained, nothing lost, just a transformational process from one thing to another.
So you put in Hydrogen and burn it and out comes water. Lots of it when you consider let’s say a billion vehicles around the globe. That will certainly have an impact on the rate and speed of global weather patterns as the water itself will have to find ways to come to some equillibrum within the context of it’s natural environments. Hence the solution there will be to recapture water for processing instead of just letting it out into open environments.
Second point, but what I consider to be the most important is that the combustion process and final chemical reaction is water that will contain heat. Although minute, but nevertheless important enough if water is openly put into the surrounding environment. What this means is that the heat carried in water although only in it’s potential form at the tail pipe, once in an open environment will dissipate quickly and impact the surrounding weather patterns and have the alarming result of speeding them up and making them more violent in nature when it is seeking out balance.
In other words, down at a basic level this is a FIRE/WATER combination with very energetic results. Speed of the output will be spiral and exponential in it’s effects in nature.
This does not mean we should not pursue hydrogen. We just have to come up with a better plan to manage the outcome of it’s results. As we are currently experiencing, we cannot hold off forever not dealing with the garbage. What goes in, must come out – with hydrogen it’ll be catastrophic if we don’t manage something so simple like water.
Umbrella’s and rain coats just won’t cut it. Begin with the End in Mind, and work back from there.
Connect the dots, man, connect the dots.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_fuel
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