But you would first have to find a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold...
But you would first have to find a lady who's sure all that glitters is gold...You could build a space escalator to get to low orbit on the moon!
Stop, I can only get so hard.To do that you first need to get a whole bunch of stuff up into space. Way more then we have managed to get into space so far. Our little space stations are not going to cut it if you want to produce industrial amounts of materials. Building all the machines you need to make a space mining operation (for example) in space is a great idea, if you have space infrastructure already in place to build highly sophisticated automated robots. But currently we can't build so much as a screwdriver in space, so we first need to get it up there.
Just wait until a rumor surfaces that the Chinese are attempting to build one and watch your tax dollars start whooshing out as the Repugs trumpet the need to further cut back social services so that we can get there first!You could build a space escalator to get to low orbit on the moon!
As a Brit the best we can do is probably a big trampoline on the top of a mountain at the moment!Just wait until a rumor surfaces that the Chinese are attempting to build one and watch your tax dollars start whooshing out as the Repugs trumpet the need to further cut back social services so that we can get there first!
The basic problem is thermodynamics. Ideally It takes X watts to electrolyze water into hydrogen and oxygen and you get X watts of power back when you run the hydrogen and oxygen through a fuel cell or you burn them.Can't we just get Hydrogen from seawater (which there is LOTS of) through electrolysis? Why the need to dig?
Get Gizmo on it, stat!As a Brit the best we can do is probably a big trampoline on the top of a mountain at the moment!
There's thinking outside the box and there's... well whatever Gizmo does!Get Gizmo on it, stat!
I mean physics doesn't care.
You have a mountain?As a Brit the best we can do is probably a big trampoline on the top of a mountain at the moment!
I know and it's sad. Such a great dream. The forces on it are too great.You know what's never, ever getting built? Space elevator.
With people like you around they don't even have to think. Thank God when it comes to that sort of thinking they are actually preternaturally already gifted. You have to witness their behavior and make predictions. For them it happens spontaneously.Just wait until a rumor surfaces that the Chinese are attempting to build one and watch your tax dollars start whooshing out as the Repugs trumpet the need to further cut back social services so that we can get there first!
You can, and you can pair it with off-shore wind turbines to power the electrolysis to create green hydrogen. Companies are exploring using turbines for electrolysis when energy demand drops below the amount the turbines are generating.Can't we just get Hydrogen from seawater (which there is LOTS of) through electrolysis? Why the need to dig?
hey that'sGive me a hose...I already produce an ass load of semi-pure hydrog...wait...that's probably methane...never mind.
It's downright assplosive!hey that'scombustiblecombuttible
There's lots and lots of gasses that are trapped underneath the earth, that's where we get most of them from. They're remnants of ancient earth, decomposition of material over the eons, dissolution of rock and other stuff from chemical and heat breakdown, etc.I am ignorant. Considering hydrogens evasive nature I didnt even consider it a possibility that we could have natural hydrogen deposits on the planet.
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And you're telling me we have hydrogen trapped under us by rocks and dirt? Really? Well alrighty then. I would just assumed and leftover hydrogen or whatever woulda escaped looong ago. Unless its ongoing hydrogen factories down there?Hydrogen embrittlement - Wikipedia
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