If cheap means are discovered to convert sea water into useable sweet water and prepare fuel from water it will be great revolution in human history. Do you think that it is feasible or not?
2006-07-02 17:38:02 · 9 answers · asked by snashraf 5 in Environment
What you are suggesting requires a lot of energy, first the desalinization, then the splitting of the water into hydrogen and oxygen.
While burning hydrogen is certainly pollution free, the process to make it from seawater will not be inexpensive. The energy required would be best acquired from solar or wind energy. The power generation plants will be expensive to build and maintain.
I do not see this as being an inexpensive process anytime soon.
2006-07-02 17:49:23 · answer #1 · answered by Raymond C 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Water has already been burned. It is the result of burning hydrogen. Therefore water cannot be a fuel. You can make make a fuel out of water by extracting the hydrogen from water but to do so you need to put more energy into making the hydrogen than you will later get from it as a fuel. That is not energetically favorable but it may be desirable if you had lots of excess electricity and not enough portable fuels. That could be the case if we generated most of our electricity from solar power. That is basically what people mean when they talk about the "Hydrogen Economy".
2006-07-02 19:02:26 · answer #2 · answered by Engineer 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think this is possible because there is already one guy that runs his machines by water as a fuel and also milk! so it just takes time for human's to actually have it everywhere, it will cost a lot to transform all of these gas stations into water fuel stations or whatever they call it!
2006-07-02 17:43:01 · answer #3 · answered by ninjadude 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They haven't failed. They're still working on it. There are plenty of machines that make fresh water from sea water and hydrogen cars are already in the prototype stage.
it's obvious that you don't have any idea what's going on in the world so I should explain to you that hydrogen is extracted from water.
The greatest advance after the hydrogen car will be solar panels on the roof so you make your own electricity
2006-07-02 18:29:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Economically feasible would prove irrelavant when fossil feul are depleted.Over time methods become more refine and inital technology become cheaper as the research cost as already covered by previous years.Hence one day it might become econmical as well.
2006-07-02 17:45:05 · answer #5 · answered by icedragon1420 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We already use water as a means to generate electricity,Niagara River has numerous powerplants along it.
2006-07-02 18:11:09 · answer #6 · answered by gr8leaf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you can use a big word like feasible you could at least use proper grammar.
2006-07-02 17:44:04 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think we should try to figure out how to manufacture water rather than to de-manufacture it into something else we can destroy.
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2016-11-30 04:37:43 · answer #9 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋