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"charliew2" <charliew2@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> You would design a process which does the same thing as what is currently
> done with hydrocarbons. For a hydrocarbon fuel, no one currently
extracts
> the hydrogen (and throws away the carbon) on a commercial basis (at least
> not yet). Burning a fuel in air breaks both carbon-carbon chemical bonds
> and carbon-hydrogen chemical bonds. You want to take advantage of this
bond
> breaking, especially the carbon-carbon bond breaking, because of the
energy
> release.
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> OK, Don ... I'll "shift gears" a bit for you to make the point more
clearly.
> Biological systems burn sugar (specifically glucose) to release heat and
> obtain the energy necessary to run life processes. This process takes
place
> slowly and at low temperatures because of all of the catalysts (e.g.,
> enzymes) involved, and because of the multiple steps that living
organisms
> go through to oxidise sugars to CO2 and water. However, there is nothing
> preventing such a chemical reaction from proceeding from sugar to carbon
> dioxide and water in a single step, given the right equipment.
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Then I take it you're saying not to extract the hydrogen from the sugar?
OK, we're all on the same page. I think Don L. was saying that too when he
wrote "The energy required to extact the hydrogen would vastly exceed that
of the recovered hydrogen."
Don W.
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