This is achieved by effectively splitting liquid water to
extract hydrogen gas, a clean fuel that can has industrial applications.
Not exact matches
Extracting CO2 from traditional coal plants is much less efficient than from gasification plants, where coal is first turned to a
gas and reacted with water to form CO2 and
hydrogen.
James A. Dumesic and his colleagues at the University of Wisconsin, Madison developed a platinum - based catalyst that breaks down glucose
extracted from plant and animal matter into
hydrogen gas, carbon dioxide and methane.
It's possible to produce
hydrogen to power fuel cells by
extracting the
gas from seawater, but the electricity required to do it makes the process costly.
Fuel cells can run on
hydrogen, natural
gas, or biofuels — the latter two requiring a reformer that processes the fuel to
extract hydrogen.
That's before you get into the environmental vagaries of
hydrogen production, which tends to be either energy - intensive itself (when
extracted through electrolysis) or is gathered during the extraction of fossil fuels or natural
gas.
The
hydrogen used in fuel cells normally comes from either natural
gas or gasoline, but the commentators at The Economist imagine that the
hydrogen would be
extracted from biomass!
Our four friends are aware that
hydrogen isn't perfect, but they cite the cleaner sources of
hydrogen, such as a Fountain Valley, Calif., sewage treatment plant that takes its methane
gas and
extracts the
hydrogen from it.
Carbon combustion generated 80 % of someone's energy, but it sure as heck doesn't constitute much of the energy of people who can take advantage of cheaper geothermal, hydro or natural
gas (which is largely
hydrogen combustion); and as the price of solar and wind plummet and the practicality of
extracting fossil other than
gas drops like a stone in lock step with the advances of competing technologies, what sort of backwards knuckle - dragger actually wants the choking and fumes and leaks and inconvenience and dust and soot and sulfates?