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Source: Virginia Tech News

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RE: A waste of time and waste
By mike66 on 4/7/2013 7:13:25 PM , Rating: 2
I'll start with the diesel process first, it's already happening at small local sewage plants on a small scale here in Australia. They are now adding wood shavings and other biomass garbage to improve product yield, but could be scaled up by using a large city's output.
To produce water pure enough to electrolyze is simple, it's called evaporation and you can do it on a large scale using current solar technology now. Cleaning the electrolytic plates would not be to hard either.
xylose production is costly and causes a lot of pollution which is exactly what we don't want and it's only a part of the process needed to produce hydrogen in that manner.
I was maybe a bit too flippant in my first post but his process seems to be to complex, costly and wasteful to be of any use. What we all need is a simple and none explosive way of storing it as fuel in cars, that's the hard part.

RE: A waste of time and waste
By BRB29 on 4/8/2013 9:17:51 AM , Rating: 2
It cost a lot of money to distill water and keep it pure. Are you saying to use solar panels to distill water? That's a high cost. On top of that, we're trying to find a economical way to do this and be able to scale.

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