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Old 10-10-2016, 12:04 PM
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The question would need to be whether this process is practical. As many who bought into the hydrogen-generator in the car hype found out: you need to put energy in to most processes to create a fuel. Creating energy from sun? Already energy, just lose some in the conversion. Wind and water? Same thing. This is why hydrocarbon fuels are so popular, natural gas for example comes out of the ground (almost) ready to burn. Crude oil less so, but is so portable once converted and doesn't need any special pressure vessel. Hydrogen is a great fuel, but needs to be converted from another source (takes lots of energy) and like NG it needs to be stored and pumped into storage at high pressure (another energy requirement).

I haven't read the conversion of seawater and air into fuel yet, but I suspect that it needs a fair amount of energy to convert. No free lunch. Oh, it's lunch time!
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