https://insidecostarica.com/2013/08/05/hydrogen-fuel-closer-to-reality/ Costa Rica's Leading English Language News Source Tue, 28 Oct 2025 04:55:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.2 https://insidecostarica.com/2013/08/05/hydrogen-fuel-closer-to-reality/#comment-5239 An t-eolaí Fri, 30 Aug 2013 11:22:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=10069#comment-5239 I’m not sure I agree with you. Producing hydrogen is easy – for example, any child can get a battery, make some electrodes from metal wire and pencil graphite and stick them into a beaker of tap water. The issue is doing it economically so that it doesn’t cost more to make it than it is worth. The other issue is with safety. I do not believe that hydrogen is a safe fuel. Clean, definitely, but the activation energy for its combustion is too low. Whilst it wasn’t so much using it as a fuel per se, the Hindenburg disaster comes to mind here. The method sounds useful for making cheap hydrogen but, personally, I’d look to the wind, tidal forces or conventional solar power for safe, cheap and clean sources of energy. By the way – should stress that I am a biologist and not a chemist/physicist, so it is altogether possible that my opinions are flawed in some way.

]]> https://insidecostarica.com/2013/08/05/hydrogen-fuel-closer-to-reality/#comment-5072 toolman78 Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:08:00 +0000 http://insidecostarica.com/?p=10069#comment-5072 The issue with hydrogen hasn’t been producing it. Transporting and storing it are the biggest problems that are encountered in trying to use it as a fuel source. So while this tech may come in handy down the line, it really doesn’t bring us any closer to using hydrogen as a fuel.

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