quattro digest, Vol 1 #3116 - more history......(NAC)

[Robert Myers]

At 01:20 PM 3/20/02, Huw Powell wrote:



>l.leung at juno.com wrote:
> >
> > The process of extracting Hydrogen from water is an endothermic (i.e. 
> needs energy) process, most easily accomplished using electricity in a 
> process called electrolysis.
> >
> > This COULD be accomplished using solar energy by using solar collectors 
> to store enough energy to perform the electrolysis.
> >
> > Would it be efficient? Not likely at the current solar to electric 
> levels of performance. But would it be essentially free and relatively 
> environmentally clean? With exception of the manufacturing of the 
> facility and equipment, Yup. BUT, it potentially does have environmental 
> effects as to the weather, absorb enough solar energy and keep it from 
> hitting the Earth, and there is a potential cooling effect from the 
> prevention of the solar to thermal energy conversion from the sun to the 
> ground to the air.
>
>other way around, really.  since the panels would reflect less energy
>back out into space (than the ground below them would have) , *more* of
>the sun's daily dose would be absorbed by "the surface of the planet".
>it ends up being distributed as heat when the "stored" energy is used.
>
>--
>Huw Powell

Except, Huw, this absorbed energy replaces fossil fuel energy which would 
have been liberated into the environment _in addition to_ the absorbed 
solar energy which strikes the earth's surface anyway.  The end result will 
be a lower amount of energy released on the earth's surface and therefore 
some degree of lowered temperature as a result.

Bob
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