Thread: Hydrogen Fuel
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Old 08-02-2013, 10:04 AM   #4
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Originally Posted by glatt View Post
Interesting.

But how much? How much hydrogen can be produced by a plant that's, let's say, 500 meters by 500 meters? They have done the calculations. They know how much sunlight will hit the mirrors to be bounced up to hit the magic hydrogen producing chamber. They know how much energy is in that sunlight. Will such a plant produce enough hydrogen to run a small town? A neighborhood? A single house? A car? A lawnmower? A camp stove?
Apparently ancient civilizations in South America were able to concentrate sunlight into beams hot enough to cut blocks of stone to a mirror finish.

I don't know what that has to do with this, exactly, but people have always been very good imagining solutions to engineering problems.
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