fuel cells could potentially take away gas , could that hurt other country's geopoliticly and how?
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Yes it would cause world wide economic problems.  First it won't happen the impact of having the petroleum industry collapse would create total disaster for governments.  Look at the U.S.A. Exon made record profits and a number of other companies in the states.  These companies are not going to give up the golden goose without a fight.  The auto industry would need to be completely revamped.  Thousands of U.S. jobs would be loss.  Bankruptcies of major corporations.  Total chaos as wall street investors loose their investments.  Do you truly think any government would allow this to happen.  The only time you will see this take place is when it becomes impossible to continue the petroleum industry as profitable.
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I'm actually doing research into that right now.  Using water as the hydrogen storage medium is not viable because it requires more energy to split the hydrogen and water than is captured by bringing them back together in a fuel cell.  There are other storage mediums that do not require energy to remove the hydrogen.  The specific medium I am experimenting with is called Sodium Borohydride, NaBH4.  It reacts with water and a metal to produce 4 moles of hydrogen which can then be used in a fuel cell.\n\nThe technology for commercially usable fuel cells will be here sooner than you realize.
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None, It would not effect them in any way. We take oil now from Alaska and export it to Europe, best price. The energy companies wrote the legislation for republicans in Congress to rubber stamp. It's organized crime at it's Height.
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they may, but it would only be a small fraction of what the USA, the country opposing it, has. They are using the uranium to help there lives, electricity is so important to everyone, we take it for granted.
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It isn't impossible to extract that energy, but it's impossible to use all of it for forward motion of a vehicle.\n\nAny transfer of energy into work in a practical machine will involve some losses. Heat, friction and so on. Could they make better use of the energy available? Depends on what the public would put up with. You know that a skateboard with a decent gas powered model car engine would get something on the order of 100 miles per gallon. But it is unlikely that the public would want to travel this way. On the other hand, a modern tank uses gallons per mile as a measure, and most of us wouldn't want to travel that way either. \n\nSo, to just look at milage is to miss the reasons we have cars in the first place, which is a complicated question of not just economics, but ego and lifestyle.\n\nThe compromise we have between mpg and the cars we drive is only one of many answers. You can look to other countries and other vehicles to get an idea of what other societies will accept in their cultures.\n\nFinally, consider your feet. Unlimited miles per gallon. And as a form of human transportation it's still one of the best and used in many parts of the world.
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fuel cell technology provides huge energy.....that's why they use it in power plants and space crafts....now Mercedes have their technology to reduce this power and use it in "Buses" and they were succeed to do that in 1998.  Now they are trying to implement this tech. in small cars. but they are facing some difficulties in using Hydrogen because it is very dangerous element.....they are trying to solve this issue by using some bi-products of the Hydrogen...as a result of that ...the efficiency will be less.\nso the limitations are :\n*the Huge energy that will be produced should be compatable with the engine been used.\n**using suitable Hidrogen bi-products for safety issues.\nI hope that I answered your question .....please try to answer mine.....\nRegards,\nFouad
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Methane can be removed by low temperature gas distillation.  The cost may not be worth it.
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There is indeed enormous amounts of oil and natrual gas in this region.  China is looking to move into to partner with Nigeria to extract some of it.  However, China like the multinational corporations that already work in the area is find the extraction very difficult.  \n  The local people are suffering all the effects (environmental degradation and health problems) without any of the rewards like people in other oil regions have.  The results are uprisings that have all but stopped the oil extraction down the delta to the sea.  \n\n   Also, gas lines continue to be attacked, and Nigeria may suffer complete blackouts as these gas lines are used to provide energy to the hydro generating stations in the country.  It would seem to get the locals onside, it might be a good idea to share the wealth and not poison their environment.  It's a novel concept but might just work!\n\n   By the way, as  Peaknik, I don't believe that Nigeria has the necessary reserves to turn the tide of Hubbert's Peak.
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you would have to find the hydrogen somewhere.
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No, but hydrogen is not free roaming in the Earth, it's tied to oxygen (water)
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We = U.S.?  Yes, "we" should.  The electricity demand is going to rise significantly over the next several decades - we could build hundred of cola/gas fired plants, removing it from car/truck consumption and from plastics and other industries feedstock OR a couple of baseload nuclear plants.  The new ones are passively safe and generate no greenhouse gases, or other toxic emissions unlike fossil fuel plants that create tons (including releasing radioactivity).  There is the spent fuel issue - however, if the US could get the geologic repository licensed and operating, or recycle the spent fuel, we'd be a lot better off.  Here's an informed site with benefits: http://www.nei.org/doc.asp?catnum=2&catid=106
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No, but what helps lower gas prices is when you buy gas from a company that doesn't buy their gas from the middle east. Then, those other stations are forced to lower prices.
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wat do rice patties have to do with it???  To end global warming you have to stop puttin emisiions into the air and find alternative fuels.  Those fuels are called BIODIESEl, made from soybeans, and HYDROGEN FUEL CELL.  And, no these arent ideas from the future, they are FOR REAL.  I have made biodiesel and seen it run in a car.  The car has been driving around the USA for 2 years now.  Also hydropgen fuel cells do exist because the city of Los Angeles commisioned one and our mayor drove around in it.  these things put no emmissions in the air.
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Oil does rule all politics unfortunately. But can I suggest a simple alternative that we could all see as common sense? Use wind or wave power to generate electricity. Use this energy to split water into its prime components. Let oxygen into the air. Burn the Hydrogen in our cars and have water as the resulting by product. You could almost make this work in your back garden! We would only need lubricating oils then which could probably be created from vegetable sources!
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We can replace a lot of fossil fuels with methane energy. There's a town in the US which is almost totally run on methane gas from an intensive feedlot. If there was a will to do it there would be methane digesters and collectors on all sewerage systems and intensive farming installations.
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Well, this has happened at far more rapid rates in the past.  It's also been happening since man first made the wheel.  We just haven't taken notice since the last century.  This is because our pumping of greenhouse gasses and thermal pollution has helped to actually speed it up.  If we want to avert this from happening so fast we need to switch to cleaner fuels, such as fuel cell mechanics.  Though this can be a dangerous thing as well.  Fuel cells work by passing hydrogen through a mesh to join with oxygen and create water.  Now this creates a current in this mesh, and can be captured to use in many electric devices, including electric cars.  Now the problem is that by using this method of energy we need to convert water into oxygen and h2, but if we accidently have the hydrogen leak from a tank it will leave our atmosphere.  Once there isn't enough hydrogen to combine with the oxygen then we have wasted the water, and make an excess of oxygen in the atmosphere.  Too much oxygen in the atmosphere will trigger more wildfires, only to creat e more greenhouse gasses.
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What scares me worse is that our country seems to be unable and unwilling to do the work needed to find alternatives to oil.  We are unable to change our lifestyle because we seem to feel it is owed to us.  You will not see anyone in Europe driving a Hummer, or any SUV.  They  have always been more conservation minded.