TunaTalon
15+ Year Contributor
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- Oct 4, 2007
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Dittmer,
Missouri
Hydrogen is easier to store than electricity and is not subject to I^2R losses in transmission. Storage is valuable to handle peaks and outages in generation. Over long distances the losses in conversion to Hydrogen will be less than the capital costs and losses from transmission as electrical energy.
Someday fusion power will be commercially available and energy will be very cheap.
Hydrogen converted from sea water is an efficient medium for transport around the country/world and can be used directly in internal combustion engines or even more efficiently in fuel cell cars.
The research on fusion power has been underway (if under cover) for decades. Somewhere in the eighties I designed environmental controls for a large laser research project at the NRL. In the late nineties when the USA stopped designing atomic bombs all of those physicists were not required to sell shoes for a living. There was/is a large scale fusion project at the Lawrence Livermore Labs.
