The Stupid Burns

I almost don’t know where to begin.

Environmental Concerns Surround Biden’s Hydrogen Energy Plan
A component of President Joe Biden’s green energy campaign has caught a snag from an unlikely place, environmentalist groups concerned that a series of new green energy plants will exacerbate a local water shortage and threaten the coastal ecosystem.
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If approved, the IIJA funds would go toward creating a regional hub to produce hydrogen fuel, a low-emission energy source created by electrolyzing water.

So the port city of Corpus Christi is afraid they’ll run out of water if it’s used up electrolyzing water for hydrogen. I dunno… maybe use sea water instead of your municipal drinking water supply?

I see someone did consider that option, but…

Local officials in favor of the hydrogen fuel production hub have favored creating desalination sites throughout the Gulf Coast port city to provide the necessary water supply.

That’s a start, but why in the ever-loving f**k desalinate the water you want to electrolyze? You need an electrolyte in the water to conduct electricity for electrolysis to happen at anything like efficient. You’re gonna purify it through desalinization — removing the electrolyte — just so you can add an electrolyte back again?

Of course, there’s a reason electrolysis isn’t a major industrial source of hydrogen: it’s costly and inefficient. Much better to get the hydrogen from petroleum or natural gas surely Texas can find some of those.

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3 thoughts on “The Stupid Burns”

  1. The amount of energy required to split water into hydrogen and oxygen is far more than the energy you get from using hydrogen as fuel. It’s a massive waste of fossil fuels energy unless it’s being done with nuclear reactors. These people are insane.

    1. Yep. Hydrogen is basically a chemical battery, not an energy source. So is petroleum really, but the energy already got stored in that, with the only input we need to make being that to separate into the useful fractions.

  2. Desalinators only reduce the electrolytes from seawater. If this were not done, the process of splitting the hydrogen and oxygen molecules would result in mineral residue building up on the electrodes quickly vastly reducing their efficiency. I agree with Dan, nuke power would be the only efficient energy input. And dealing with hydrogen has it’s own safety issues. Hindenburg anyone? BTW, I hold a Merchant Mariners license, Chief Engineer, Unlimited. So I know of what I speak. This whole scheme smacks of another inefficient tax dollar giveaway.

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