Chuck wrote
> If you can figure out a way to make solar cost significantly less than 10X
> coal/oil/gas you'll have assured your future. Alternatively, figure out
> how to economically store and retrieve the power for when the sun don't
> shine. Even in Arizona it tends to be dark much of the time. :-)
and Andrew wrote
> It's simple really - use it to grow trees, let them decay into a swamp and
> then wait a few million years until they turn black and hard. Then dig it
> up and burn it. All power is solar power. You just have wait a bit longer
> for some of it. Andrew Fildes
There's a New Zealander scientist/engineer/inventor working at a Technical
University in Lubbock Texas and in cahoots with some large American car
makers, on ammonia generation, ammonia engines etc; ammonia being the
only non-hydrocarbon chemical / fuel with the highest density of hydrogen
per molecule. He is associated with their latest engine developments as
well.
He reckons that traditional hydrocarbon fuels and engines have only about 5
years of serious future left ... or something like that.
I don't remember his name, but I heard him interviewed on NZ National
Radio last weekend.
Apparently, ammonia generators are the best way to store surplus energy
from wind farms for feeding back to the grid or for transport to other uses
such as cars..
He apparently has scads of processes patented.
Why didn't I think of that??
Brian Swale.
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