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Hello Warren & all,
Regarding making hydrogen from electricity I am aware that
it is the most inefficient way of making hydrogen. It is one way and the only
way that I can think of except using oil or gas and their products.
If you have a big shortage of oil you would not want to waste it making
hydrogen. More efficient to use it directly. That is why hydrogen fails.
I am puzzled by your reference to 200 mile range of cars. They would be usless
here. My car does about 500km to 600k on a tank, say 450 miles. It has a
60 litre tank.
You refered to the Bombes. They were a machine designed by the Polish
cypher people to crack the enigma before the war and they passed the design
onto the French and the British. They were called Bombe because they ticked
when operating. They were a brute force technique that tried various keys.
Re desalination plants, as Bob said there are a number being built.
Our cities have got larger and some went too close for comfort to very low
dam levels. So no matter how expensive or how much electricity they use they
are a lot cheaper than moving Sydney or Melbourne or indeed Perth.
As far as wind and solar farms are concerned, probably the more the merrier
as eventually it will be all hands to the pumps.
Far too many people are prepared to accept the idea "Oh 'they' will find an
alternative or "there is plenty there that the oil companies have capped off".
They are too desparate for supply to cap off perfectly good wells and go
drilling miles below the sea bed.
It is one thing to be optimistic that there are solutions, quite another to
think it will be as good or better than what we have now. That is realism !
Here endeth the second lesson !
73 Barry VK2AAB
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