Uncensored2008
Libertarian Radical
The report is the typical newspaper rah rah. I am trying to find some of thir actual work but so far I haven't been able to.
Agreed. This may be nothing more than a pipe dream - but look at how the greens reacted? The prospect of clean, cheap, safe energy terrifies them - confronts their entire scam
That being said, the savings in separating out the hydrocarbons needed for plastic creation is interesting.
However, they trade one weight, heavy steel pressure cylinders, for another weight, sand, for the transport of the hydrogen so I see no net gain at all. In fact there is another loss at the receiving end as the hydrogen is removed from the sand.
We don't know the storage capacity. By volume, gasoline is heavier than coarse sand. It depends on how many BTU's are contained. If this could store large amounts of energy and release it on demand - it would be the end of fuel problems on earth.
That's a lot of "if's" - but it's something promising - not hype like solar.