Comments on: Speaking of Energy Production https://blog.speculist.com/energy/speaking-of-ene.html Live to see it. Thu, 16 Dec 2021 08:21:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Engineer-Poet https://blog.speculist.com/energy/speaking-of-ene.html#comment-215 Engineer-Poet Thu, 09 Dec 2004 16:29:09 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=173#comment-215 (make that “Gets teased with silly haiku”.)

]]> By: Engineer-Poet https://blog.speculist.com/energy/speaking-of-ene.html#comment-214 Engineer-Poet Thu, 09 Dec 2004 07:33:25 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=173#comment-214 Geeky Dean Esmay
Likes to pick on ev’ry nit
Gets teased with haiku

]]> By: Dean Esmay https://blog.speculist.com/energy/speaking-of-ene.html#comment-213 Dean Esmay Thu, 09 Dec 2004 03:47:19 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=173#comment-213 Lovely hydrogen

So many ways to make it

Heh. I think you can’t actually “make” hydrogen without some sort of fusion. I think you mean “use it.”

I know, I know, I’m being a nit-picky geek. ;-)

]]> By: Engineer-Poet https://blog.speculist.com/energy/speaking-of-ene.html#comment-212 Engineer-Poet Wed, 08 Dec 2004 20:49:34 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=173#comment-212 With the Nuclear Hydrogen Initiative not set to go to an engineering demonstration until 2016 (!), I think we’re likely to see solar hydrogen first.  There are just so many ways for solar to succeed, from engineered chlorophyll-based systems to the ruthenium-rhodium complex to plain old green algae to systems based on activated titanium dioxide.  They can be developed in small labs and brought to production so much more cheaply, and the political and legal issues associated with nuclear are entirely absent.

Lovely hydrogen
So many ways to make it
Confusing choices

]]> By: Dean Esmay https://blog.speculist.com/energy/speaking-of-ene.html#comment-211 Dean Esmay Tue, 07 Dec 2004 23:01:52 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=173#comment-211 There are so many alternate routes to alternate energy that I remain skeptical of any one proposal until it’s actually in production.

But, that said? I no longer fear that we’ll never find a workable alternative to fossil fuels.

]]> By: SteveW https://blog.speculist.com/energy/speaking-of-ene.html#comment-210 SteveW Tue, 07 Dec 2004 18:45:07 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=173#comment-210 If one considers using a nuke plant to power a hydrogen factory just to avoid burning hydrocarbons, why not just use the nuke plant to replace hydrocarbon burning electrical plants. Burn all the saved hydrocarbons in vehicles where there already is a distribution network.

]]> By: Stephen Gordon https://blog.speculist.com/energy/speaking-of-ene.html#comment-209 Stephen Gordon Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:44:55 +0000 http://localhost/specblog/?p=173#comment-209 Wouldn’t it be great if all the problems associated with hydrogen production and transportation could be solved with a water spliting molecule?

“Fill ‘er up with water, and I’m a quart low on Spliter.”

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