Re: Electrolysis is not always ludicrous...

["charliew2" <charliew2@xxxxxxx>]

"Don Lancaster" <don@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Peter Lowrie wrote:
>> Dear Mike
>>
>> Mike McWilliams wrote:
>>
>>>What I would like to see is a manufactured equivalent of the electron 
>>>transport chain in plants, coupled to a chemical reaction which stores 
>>>hydrogen in hydrocarbons or even sugars
>>
>>
>> ...Is this to say that sugar contains Hydrogen, how would one go about
>> extracting Hydrogen from sugar?
>>
>
> The energy required to extact the hydrogen would vastly exceed that of the 
> recovered hydrogen.
>

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.

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>
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