Reply To: Focus fusion and transportation

[Tasmodevil44]

Oh, and there’s the other alternative fuel that I forgot to mention riding in on the back of focus fusion:

It has often been said that hydrogen is not a real energy source, but only more of an energy CURRENCY. Just a method of energy storage …… and a very bulky, impractical and uneconomic method of energy storage at that. No large naturally occurring deposits of hydrogen exist anywhere on earth like coal, oil, natural gas, uranium or thorium. All hydrogen has to be produced from already existing energy sources.

However, hydrogen could come one step closer to looking more like a real energy source …… in it’s own right …… if it rides in on the back of some other cheap and plentiful energy source. Focus fusion could potentially produce unlimited cheap hydrogen.

There’s no sense in wasting good natural gas. It’s a limited, finite fuel, too. Just like oil. And although it produces less greenhouse carbon dioxide for the same amount of Btu’s of energy, it still produces CO2 nonetheless. But hydrogen may be made to flow through existing natural gas pipelines with very little modifications. Today, natural gas is used in industry for all kinds of high temperature processes : melting glass, metals and other materials, as well as firing ceramic materials. Natural gas might be substituted for hydrogen in many of these applications. All this valuable methane is too important a chemical feedstock for making rubber, plastic, petrochemicals, etc. than to mismanage and squander it all by simply burning it up. Cheaply mass – produced hydrogen from focus fusion might help to remedy the problem as a natural gas substitute in the future.