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"charliew2" <charliew2@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Don Lancaster" <don@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Peter Lowrie wrote:
> >> Dear Mike
> >>
> >> ...Is this to say that sugar contains Hydrogen, how would one go about
> >> extracting Hydrogen from sugar?
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> >
> > The energy required to extact the hydrogen would vastly exceed that of
the
> > recovered hydrogen.
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> Not so, Don. You would burn the synthetic fuel to release its energy.
If
> you used atmospheric CO2 in this process (i.e., there is a strong
inference
> above that the new process would duplicate the way that plants sequester
> atmospheric CO2), there would be no net fossil carbon emissions to the
> environment.
>
You're a smart fellow -- where the heck are you coming from here? The
energy contained in sugar comes both from hydrogen and carbon. Converting
energy from one form to another results in some heat losses. So how can
you end up with anything close to the energy you started with if you
extract hydrogen from sugar? What do you mean by "burn the synthetic fuel
to release its energy"?
Don W.
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