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

[Larry C Leung]

That potential heat energy will not be turned into heat, instead it will
end up as stored electric power, which, depending upon the efficiency of
the resulting vehicles etc, may end up redistributed as somewhat less
heat (subtract whatever electrical energy is turned into motion, sound,
light, etc.) by the vehicles, in an entirely different area. Potential
climatic issues here, and I'm not trying to exaggerate or alarm, just
stating facts.... remember I was an engineer before entering the
education field so I'm not trying to be overtly green

LL - NY

On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 13:20:49 -0500 Huw Powell <human747 at attbi.com>
writes:
>
>
>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
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