Re: GAS-L: Fuel Cells -- ethanol -- reforming natural gas

["Hauserman" <hauserman@corpcomm.net>]

To:  CAVM et al.

Ref.:  Below

 

    Quite true. I said that hydrogen "can be" made from a wade variety of raw materials - Essentially from anything that can be gasified to an H2+CO syngas. But as Tom Reed  rightly points out, this is still quite expensive and impractical.   As far as I know, all commercial hydrogen is currently made by large scale reforming of natural gas, though even coal gasification - probably on an even larger scale - looks promising. But getting the stuff to end users is clearly expensive and often impractical.  Major current uses are large scale hydrogenation of heavy petroleum fractions and vegetable oils, and launching space shuttles. The microchip industry is a big, distributed demand for small per-site amounts.  The mandated premise of hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicles is that ALL vehicles may eventually get expensive and impractical to operate,  either due to inevitable depletion of petroleum reserves or human-imposed (geopolitical or environmental) constraints. 

 

                                                                                    Bill Hauserman 

 

                                                                                                               

 

----- Original Message -----

From: <CAVM@aol.com>

To: <gasification@crest.org>

Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:51 PM

Subject: Re: GAS-L: Fuel Cells -- ethanol -- reforming natural gas

> In a message dated 1/10/2002 
10:30:08 AM Central Standard Time, 
> hauserman@corpcomm.net writes:
> 
> << Hydrogen can be made from a huge variety of  primary raw 
materials, 
> including biomass and garbage, as well as coal and "surplus" 
natural gas. >>
> 
> 
> I am very interested in this 
comment.  I thought the production of hydrogen 
> was expensive and 
impractical except for certain uses.
> 
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