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This has been postulated many many times before in many different ways. The question is how much power does he need to actually seperate the H and the O atoms from each other. I wonder where this power comes from. Probably his fossil fuel based local power station.
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I believe it’s called a Pollution Relocation Device. There are more than a few of these technologies around now -- Some as simple as car Smog and yet others like fission reactors.
People have been experimenting with water for a long time. Wet chemistry is well explored and seemingly beyond some of these folks understanding (at least their PR.)
As for mysterious metal cutting – bah – ask anyone who owns a boat with an unbalanced prop or the old space station’s water purifier that cracked water.
Btw: Why do people think Oil’s value is just related to gasoline and fuels etc. Oil is actually too valuable to be simply burned. There are many chemical by-products like cheap plastics and chemicals people take for granted. Unfortunately some are rather unique to the refinement processes and may be lost for good.
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I'm not alone =D
carbon_rod, your point of view is what I generally try to preach - that the (limited) fossil fuels should be used in applications where the end product is often reusable i.e. polymers.
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Actually, we don't have an oil shortage problem; we have an energy problem. More specifically we have a clean energy problem (and the site linked above does nothing to help). Given a cheap source of energy I can tell you how to extract CO2 from the air by distillation, reduce it to carbon with magnesium, (regenerated electrolytically) and use that carbon to make synthetic oil, in the same way that South Africa did with its coal. Without that energy we are stuffed.
Vigilatny Registered Member #17
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Carbon_Rod wrote ...
I believe it’s called a Pollution Relocation Device. There are more than a few of these technologies around now -- Some as simple as car Smog and yet others like fission reactors.
I think fission reactors as pollution relocation devices is a bit of a stretch. They are a a much cleaner but potentially dangerous form of energy production.
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Spent fuel is usually stored in large 6†thick stainless steel tanks surrounded by a 14’ razor wire fence because it’s so environmentally friendly. Some reactor sites have been stockpiling the waste for years – still others have a policy that they do not recycle the fuel like the European system. Still the spent fuel eventually has to go somewhere.
However I must agree that not all reactors are as dangerous to operate or maintain. My point was that nuclear materials should be used for scientific applications and not a consumer item like electricity.
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Carbon_Rod wrote ...
Spent fuel is usually stored in large 6†thick stainless steel tanks surrounded by a 14’ razor wire fence because it’s so environmentally friendly.
I thought it was because they could be used to easily make nuclear weapons.....
Carbon_Rod wrote ...
Some reactor sites have been stockpiling the waste for years – still others have a policy that they do not recycle the fuel like the European system.
The European system? This must be new. The only decent recycling system I've seen is the Canadian CANDU system.
Carbon_Rod wrote ...
However I must agree that not all reactors are as dangerous to operate or maintain. My point was that nuclear materials should be used for scientific applications and not a consumer item like electricity.
What scientific application is there that requires large amounts of uranium?
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