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SO WHAT IS FREE GREEN HYDROGEN?

 

From Worldometer (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):

          DAY  USA  WORLD    Brazil    India    South Africa

June     9     1093     4732         1185        246       82
July    22      1205     7128         1293      1120     572
Aug    12      1504     6556        1242        835     130
Sept     9      1208      6222       1136       1168       82
Oct     21      1225      6849         571        703       85
Nov    25       2304    12025        620        518      118
Dec    30       3880    14748       1224       299      465
Jan     14        4142    15512        1151         189      712
Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398
Mar      2       1989     9490        1726       110      194
April     6        906    11787         4211       631       37
May     4        853     13667        3025      3786     59 
June    1        287    10637         2346      3205      95
 July    7         251      8440        1595        817      411
Aug     4         656    10120        1118         532      423 
Sept   22      2228      9326          839       279     124
Oct      6       2102      8255          543       315       59
Nov    3        1436      7830         186        458       23
Dec     1       1633      8475          266        477       28
Jan     7        2025      6729         148         285     140
Feb     2        2990   12012          946        991      175
Mar     2        1778     7756          335         173       28 
Apr     1          439      4056         290          52       12
May    5          225      2404          151            ?       64 
         12          222      1995           136           9       21
         19          201      1801           115           20      31
         26          217      1528          136           14      49
June   1          347       1409         121             ?      29

Summary:
  • Well, the USA was back at #1 in new deaths yesterday.  #2 was Taiwan with 122.  #3 Brazil 121.
  • New cases yesterday (with new cases/million population in parentheses):
    • #1  USA  95,004 (284)
      • Hawaii  1161 (823, has recently regularly had the most cases/million for states)
      • Florida  9993 (465, most new cases in U.S.)
    • #2  North Korea  93,190 (3584, did not report new deaths)
    • #3  Taiwan  88,293 (3679)
    • World 569,714 (72)
When in 2006 I first proposed the concept of making hydrogen free at my thank you statement to the National Hydrogen Association luncheon audience, the general response was mostly what?, huh?, what do you mean?, etc.  When I again mentioned this proposal in my blog yesterday, a couple of people couldn't quite grasp the meaning of what I meant.

Actually, I should have been a bit more precise, and the proposition should have been to MAKE GREEN HYDROGEN FREE. 
  • Green hydrogen means the gas needs to be produced sustainably and cleanly.  Thus, not from natural gas, etc.
  • The details need to be worked out, but, in essence.
  • Here is what would happen.
    • The free enterprise system would gain government funding to find ways to:
      • Produce hydrogen as cheaply as possible.
      • An infrastructure would be networked in quick fashion.
      • Devices would be developed to use this looming free energy.
        • Vehicles, certainly.
        • Homes.
        • Industry.
        • Ships.
        • Aviation.
At H-Day in the future:
  • There will be a growing number of fuel cell vehicles on the market.
  • Fast dirigibles would be available for cargo and passengers.  The Hydrogen Clipper and competitors will compete with United Airlines and other airlines.
    • I've talked to founder Rinaldo Brutoco to send his Clipper to our Blue Revolution industrial parks, where ocean thermal energy conversion would produce hydrogen, stored in ocean bladders, and loaded into his aircraft.
    • Some industrial consortium would have the hydrogen-powered Orient Express readied by 2050.
      • Current flights will take you from Los Angeles to Tokyo in 10 hours.
      • A Mach 2.7 jetliner would only need a little more than 3 hours.
      • A future Mach 8 craft would take about an hour.
      • Then someday, a Mach 25 bullet-plane would get there in less than 20 minutes.
  • Laser or magnetic confined fusion could attain commercial electricity status by 2050.

If other remediative measures are in parallel taken, Humanity should be able to withstand climate warming.  The Hydrogen Society should wean our atmosphere back to normality by 2100.  This would clearly be one of the best case solutions.

So you ask, who would pay for the Green Hydrogen solution?  
  • Governments, of course, which means you, through various taxes.  
  • Would our White House and Congress initiate and follow-through with all the above?  
    • In a Trump-type administration, no.  
    • In the current Congressional stalemate, no.  
  • Society does, however, come together for worst case scenarios.  
    • Remember Hitler, Tojo, Mussolini and World War II?  It was too uncomfortably close, but the Free World did succeed with the Manhattan Project and win the war.
    • The Cold War was won with the Apollo Project.
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