With the rising price of crude oil comes a rising cost in everything downstream from it: gasoline, heating oil and electricity. There's a way to exploit an inexhaustible source that will be here long after all the oil deposits are depleted.
Ask yourself this: what powers the space shuttle? Hydrogen and Oxygen. And what is water made of? The same thing. So what's the problem? It takes a lot of energy to separate Hydrogen from Oxygen but if industry would put their shoulder to the wheel they could come up with less costly ways to separate the two.
Think of it. A power station on the banks of a river drawing water from the source, separating it into it's two components then feeding it into a furnace that creates super-heated steam that runs turbines that create electricity. And what do we get from the combustion? Distilled water and no pollutants. The combustion chamber would have to be a closed system. Drawing in outside air with it's various gases would create another pollution we don't need.
As the system evolved and was made more efficient I can see the power company selling off excess distilled water instead of separating it again to be re-fed into the furnaces. And there's no way we could ever run out of fuel.
Also, consider this. Power companies keep standby generators ready to help out when the demand for power is high in the summer when air conditioners and fans are sucking up a lot of energy. These standby generators are driven by electric motors. A percentage of the energy from the turbine driven generators is drawn off to power these motors that are connected by a shaft to the generators that produce the extra energy when needed.
Consider this; why can't the generator be plugged into the motor that is running it? It's illogical to think that 100% of the energy produced would be needed to run the drive motor. In theory we would have nothing but free energy. I'm no expert but I'm sure the experts could figure out the whys and wherefores in making it work.
Why aren't the Government and industry pursuing the research that would bring all this about?
The simple answer is we aren't desperate enough. We're not in danger of running out of oil in the near future and even when that runs out there are thousands of cubic miles of coal underground that could be turned into fuel. The Germans were doing it over 60 years ago. Only when they've fouled the air so badly and we're dying of various lung failures will someone think there must have been a better way.
But then, this is just IMHO.
Take a deep breath for me, won't you?
Ask yourself this: what powers the space shuttle? Hydrogen and Oxygen. And what is water made of? The same thing. So what's the problem? It takes a lot of energy to separate Hydrogen from Oxygen but if industry would put their shoulder to the wheel they could come up with less costly ways to separate the two.
Think of it. A power station on the banks of a river drawing water from the source, separating it into it's two components then feeding it into a furnace that creates super-heated steam that runs turbines that create electricity. And what do we get from the combustion? Distilled water and no pollutants. The combustion chamber would have to be a closed system. Drawing in outside air with it's various gases would create another pollution we don't need.
As the system evolved and was made more efficient I can see the power company selling off excess distilled water instead of separating it again to be re-fed into the furnaces. And there's no way we could ever run out of fuel.
Also, consider this. Power companies keep standby generators ready to help out when the demand for power is high in the summer when air conditioners and fans are sucking up a lot of energy. These standby generators are driven by electric motors. A percentage of the energy from the turbine driven generators is drawn off to power these motors that are connected by a shaft to the generators that produce the extra energy when needed.
Consider this; why can't the generator be plugged into the motor that is running it? It's illogical to think that 100% of the energy produced would be needed to run the drive motor. In theory we would have nothing but free energy. I'm no expert but I'm sure the experts could figure out the whys and wherefores in making it work.
Why aren't the Government and industry pursuing the research that would bring all this about?
The simple answer is we aren't desperate enough. We're not in danger of running out of oil in the near future and even when that runs out there are thousands of cubic miles of coal underground that could be turned into fuel. The Germans were doing it over 60 years ago. Only when they've fouled the air so badly and we're dying of various lung failures will someone think there must have been a better way.
But then, this is just IMHO.
Take a deep breath for me, won't you?
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