PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - How will flight be powered when fossil fuel runs out?
Old 1st February 2006 | 23:14
  #24 (permalink)  
Memetic
Supercalifragilistic
expialidocious
20 Anniversary
 
Joined: Sep 2001
Posts: 589
Likes: 0
From: Essex, UK
Originally Posted by tilewood
This may have been posted already in which case I apologise.
I seem to recall a scientist stating that hydrogen power is indeed
very clean.
The drawback is that it takes more hydrocarbon energy to extract and
refine hydrogen than the power it actually produces!!
How does splitting water to produce hydrogen using solar, wind, wave, nuclear or biomass to generate the electricity to do it use more hydrocarbon energy than the hydrogen can deliver?
Memetic is offline