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I'm looking into my crystal ball and envisioning being a liveaboard on a 40 foot powerboat, 8 months out of the year, likely stationed in Savannah. We dream of touring the ICW, Gulf, Caribbean, and the Great Lakes. Then we calculate today's fuel costs into the picture and gasp! Will H-boats being standard in 10-15 years? Will fuel costs drop as supply demands drops? Will a powerboater will be able to cruise all day for $50? Discussion. -Greg |
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15 years, absolutely, no problem!
One of my university professors was deep in the development of both a hydrogen fueled internal combustion engine and a hydrogen fuel cell. Both nearly ready for production. OF course that was 40 years ago. BF "Dene" dene@(nospam) ipns.com wrote in message ... I'm looking into my crystal ball and envisioning being a liveaboard on a 40 foot powerboat, 8 months out of the year, likely stationed in Savannah. We dream of touring the ICW, Gulf, Caribbean, and the Great Lakes. Then we calculate today's fuel costs into the picture and gasp! Will H-boats being standard in 10-15 years? Will fuel costs drop as supply demands drops? Will a powerboater will be able to cruise all day for $50? Discussion. -Greg |
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The technology will probably be there but will you be able to find a
hydrogen fuel dock in Georgetown, Exuma or points south? -- Glenn Ashmore I'm building a 45' cutter in strip/composite. Watch my progress (or lack there of) at: http://www.rutuonline.com Shameless Commercial Division: http://www.spade-anchor-us.com "Dene" dene@(nospam) ipns.com wrote in message ... I'm looking into my crystal ball and envisioning being a liveaboard on a 40 foot powerboat, 8 months out of the year, likely stationed in Savannah. We dream of touring the ICW, Gulf, Caribbean, and the Great Lakes. Then we calculate today's fuel costs into the picture and gasp! Will H-boats being standard in 10-15 years? Will fuel costs drop as supply demands drops? Will a powerboater will be able to cruise all day for $50? Discussion. -Greg |
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I'd be very surprised to see Hydrogen power common on the waterways.
I predict we'll see more electric power, especially if battery technology improves. Also, diesel-electric may be more common. The other trend I expect is more catamaran trawlers, or power cats. Fuel economy is much better than traditional displacement hulls. The PDQ MV34 user 4 gal/hour at 16 knots. Dene wrote: I'm looking into my crystal ball and envisioning being a liveaboard on a 40 foot powerboat, 8 months out of the year, likely stationed in Savannah. We dream of touring the ICW, Gulf, Caribbean, and the Great Lakes. Then we calculate today's fuel costs into the picture and gasp! Will H-boats being standard in 10-15 years? Will fuel costs drop as supply demands drops? Will a powerboater will be able to cruise all day for $50? Discussion. -Greg |
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"Iceland already has a plan to convert from fossil fuels to hydrogen. In
2003, the government, working with a consortium of companies led by Shell and DaimlerChrysler, took the first step by beginning to convert the capital city of Reykjavik's fleet of 80 buses from internal combustion to fuel cell engines. Shell built a hydrogen station to service the buses, using inexpensive hydroelectricity to produce clean hydrogen. In the next stage, Iceland's automobiles will be converted to fuel cell engines. And in the final stage, the Icelandic fishing fleet - the centerpiece of its economy - also will convert to fuel cells." |
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On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 17:49:59 -0500, bowgus wrote:
"Iceland already has a plan to convert from fossil fuels to hydrogen. In 2003, the government, working with a consortium of companies led by Shell and DaimlerChrysler, took the first step by beginning to convert the capital city of Reykjavik's fleet of 80 buses from internal combustion to fuel cell engines. Shell built a hydrogen station to service the buses, using inexpensive hydroelectricity to produce clean hydrogen. In the next stage, Iceland's automobiles will be converted to fuel cell engines. And in the final stage, the Icelandic fishing fleet - the centerpiece of its economy - also will convert to fuel cells." The sticky point with hydrogen is that it takes so much energy to produce. Where are we going to get all this energy, which we're already short of? Iceland is blessed with practically unlimited geothermal energy. So they can produce hydrogen for their own use as well as export. Matt O. |
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My opinion ... for long term hydro (I'm in canada eh), wind, solar make
sense (usually lotsa wind, solar, and water around boats by the way). But for the short/near term, it's looking like mainly natural gas ... e.g bld has some units selling in japan, fcel units here and there. All I know is, somebody better start building that hydrogen infrastructure (and finish it) while we still have the fossil fuels to do the work. The sticky point with hydrogen is that it takes so much energy to produce. Where are we going to get all this energy, which we're already short of? Iceland is blessed with practically unlimited geothermal energy. So they can produce hydrogen for their own use as well as export. Matt O. |
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bowgus wrote:
My opinion ... for long term hydro (I'm in canada eh), wind, solar make sense (usually lotsa wind, solar, and water around boats by the way). But for the short/near term, it's looking like mainly natural gas ... e.g bld has some units selling in japan, fcel units here and there. All I know is, somebody better start building that hydrogen infrastructure (and finish it) while we still have the fossil fuels to do the work. The sticky point with hydrogen is that it takes so much energy to produce. Where are we going to get all this energy, which we're already short of? There is no shortage of energy. There is a shortage of power conditioning technology, like refineries, battery manufacturers, or solar collectors. There will be no actual oil shortage for at least 10 years. Longer, if we each take personal responsibility for reducing energy wastage and usage in a big way. We are being weaned, ever so gradually, by the oil guys who want to orchestrate the last 10 years of oil to be a pricing frenzy. They are consolidating their garrotte on the refinery industry, now. Someone should start up a company to build a modest refinery on a big old slow ship with tanker hose connections, perhaps an obsolete single skinned tanker? You could anchor it anywhere, and empty it if a storm threatened. A refinery is just a big old still, after all. You can make a moonshine still from an old coffee maker. Think of hydrogen as part of a battery system, a refillable battery, if you will. The hydrogen gets "charged" at a hilly wind or desert sun site, and tanked or pipelined to users, who "discharge" it to create a substitute for transpiration, where we cut down trees to build this city. It's not rocket psciance, it's rock and roll. If Vegas's sewers went to a solar lagoon, the water extracted by Zenon (TM) Zeaweed (TM) could provide hydrogen without having to pipe in special water, or poison the ditch to the sea. Is there a runoff from Vegas, a river, or something? Some of the hydrogen produced by solar power and electrolysis and stored under a tarp could even be used to provide peak load electricity in a turbine or internal combustion super clean "steam" engine, bonus exhaust: pure water. The dried crap, sterilized by the sun, would make good odourless fertilizer for corn to make corny diesel, gasahol, and livestock feed, for the rabbits or goats under the sunshade solar collectors. Trangenic goats can be used to produce very fancy medical drug feedstock, and would never escape death valley, whatever, unaided. Serendipity? Problems, or solutions? It's really all in our attitude. We want lotsa cheap durable solar shingles, and the right to sell excess power back to the hydro company, even at 15 percent efficiency, or windmills where we can't hear them and where there are no birds or bats! Low pressure H2 pipelines would not depress permafrost, and could even float on cables above the ground or river crossing using low pressure anti static plastic pipes, greenhouse ventilation tubes actually. Such a pipeline could be unreeled from a helicopter, and anchored in rock, filling with gas as it is installed in the air. Crews could use very simple straight clamps to essentially close the low pressure line wherever needed. Occasional ground valves could contain mishaps, like Caribou antler entanglements. We need lightweight, flexible solar cells to print on the tops of the gas bags, along with the telemetered pressure gauges, like the ones they are going to print on solar powered electro-deflective-gel fleshed orthinopter high altitude balloon launched surveillance robot birds, like they demo'd on Discovery last week. Ain't war technology great? What do you think they use to lift big balloons, H2? Helium? Don't make me laugh! Who do you think sabotaged the Hindenburg, and why? Who promotes expensive, inefficient helium to preserve their old technology? Yup, shipping magnates, the oil guys, the heavy pipeline guys, and wildcat drillers. That is the future, but don't look to the oil guys to put themselves out of business real soon, yet. I said it about tungsten, of which I have a now near worthless collection recycled from incandescent bulbs over the years, and I optimistically say it about oil, Like some one said about buggy whips. Horses might still be popular if it wasn't for the horse muck. Oil is becoming obsolete, just like coal did. There are energy wars being conducted internally, by rich traitors and poor scientist-enterprenuer heroes. Set the army engineers on it, if you want to see a peace dividend. Remember that quaint term "Peace Dividend?" There is lots more coal in the ground, we just don't need it right now, because oil is easier and more profitable. There is no shortage of energy, only of imagination. Terry K Iceland is blessed with practically unlimited geothermal energy. So they can produce hydrogen for their own use as well as export. Matt O. |
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Good read. Thanks!
-Greg "Terry Spragg" wrote in message ... bowgus wrote: My opinion ... for long term hydro (I'm in canada eh), wind, solar make sense (usually lotsa wind, solar, and water around boats by the way). But for the short/near term, it's looking like mainly natural gas ... e.g bld has some units selling in japan, fcel units here and there. All I know is, somebody better start building that hydrogen infrastructure (and finish it) while we still have the fossil fuels to do the work. The sticky point with hydrogen is that it takes so much energy to produce. Where are we going to get all this energy, which we're already short of? There is no shortage of energy. There is a shortage of power conditioning technology, like refineries, battery manufacturers, or solar collectors. There will be no actual oil shortage for at least 10 years. Longer, if we each take personal responsibility for reducing energy wastage and usage in a big way. We are being weaned, ever so gradually, by the oil guys who want to orchestrate the last 10 years of oil to be a pricing frenzy. They are consolidating their garrotte on the refinery industry, now. Someone should start up a company to build a modest refinery on a big old slow ship with tanker hose connections, perhaps an obsolete single skinned tanker? You could anchor it anywhere, and empty it if a storm threatened. A refinery is just a big old still, after all. You can make a moonshine still from an old coffee maker. Think of hydrogen as part of a battery system, a refillable battery, if you will. The hydrogen gets "charged" at a hilly wind or desert sun site, and tanked or pipelined to users, who "discharge" it to create a substitute for transpiration, where we cut down trees to build this city. It's not rocket psciance, it's rock and roll. If Vegas's sewers went to a solar lagoon, the water extracted by Zenon (TM) Zeaweed (TM) could provide hydrogen without having to pipe in special water, or poison the ditch to the sea. Is there a runoff from Vegas, a river, or something? Some of the hydrogen produced by solar power and electrolysis and stored under a tarp could even be used to provide peak load electricity in a turbine or internal combustion super clean "steam" engine, bonus exhaust: pure water. The dried crap, sterilized by the sun, would make good odourless fertilizer for corn to make corny diesel, gasahol, and livestock feed, for the rabbits or goats under the sunshade solar collectors. Trangenic goats can be used to produce very fancy medical drug feedstock, and would never escape death valley, whatever, unaided. Serendipity? Problems, or solutions? It's really all in our attitude. We want lotsa cheap durable solar shingles, and the right to sell excess power back to the hydro company, even at 15 percent efficiency, or windmills where we can't hear them and where there are no birds or bats! Low pressure H2 pipelines would not depress permafrost, and could even float on cables above the ground or river crossing using low pressure anti static plastic pipes, greenhouse ventilation tubes actually. Such a pipeline could be unreeled from a helicopter, and anchored in rock, filling with gas as it is installed in the air. Crews could use very simple straight clamps to essentially close the low pressure line wherever needed. Occasional ground valves could contain mishaps, like Caribou antler entanglements. We need lightweight, flexible solar cells to print on the tops of the gas bags, along with the telemetered pressure gauges, like the ones they are going to print on solar powered electro-deflective-gel fleshed orthinopter high altitude balloon launched surveillance robot birds, like they demo'd on Discovery last week. Ain't war technology great? What do you think they use to lift big balloons, H2? Helium? Don't make me laugh! Who do you think sabotaged the Hindenburg, and why? Who promotes expensive, inefficient helium to preserve their old technology? Yup, shipping magnates, the oil guys, the heavy pipeline guys, and wildcat drillers. That is the future, but don't look to the oil guys to put themselves out of business real soon, yet. I said it about tungsten, of which I have a now near worthless collection recycled from incandescent bulbs over the years, and I optimistically say it about oil, Like some one said about buggy whips. Horses might still be popular if it wasn't for the horse muck. Oil is becoming obsolete, just like coal did. There are energy wars being conducted internally, by rich traitors and poor scientist-enterprenuer heroes. Set the army engineers on it, if you want to see a peace dividend. Remember that quaint term "Peace Dividend?" There is lots more coal in the ground, we just don't need it right now, because oil is easier and more profitable. There is no shortage of energy, only of imagination. Terry K Iceland is blessed with practically unlimited geothermal energy. So they can produce hydrogen for their own use as well as export. Matt O. |
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Good one Terry!
When I worked at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station I was amazed that the "Florida Solar Energy Center" was a 1/2 acre lot with a chain link fence and a building that couldn't have been more than 2,000 square feet. The 1/2 acre also enclosed the parking lot! If you're familiar with it CCAFS, it borders the South perimeter of Kennedy Space Center and combined, the together are about 30 miles long. There are SO many unused pads and facilities with an incredible amount of open land around them. It wasn't too hard to figure out why the Solar people were jammed into the 1/2 acre with not even enough room to walk between the ground mounted solar panels. I guess Washington can't squash development of alternative energy, but they can make it hard to do! The facility has since moved but still only has a staff of 15. Doesn't really sound as if we are very serious does it? MMC "Terry Spragg" wrote in message ... bowgus wrote: My opinion ... for long term hydro (I'm in canada eh), wind, solar make sense (usually lotsa wind, solar, and water around boats by the way). But for the short/near term, it's looking like mainly natural gas ... e.g bld has some units selling in japan, fcel units here and there. All I know is, somebody better start building that hydrogen infrastructure (and finish it) while we still have the fossil fuels to do the work. The sticky point with hydrogen is that it takes so much energy to produce. Where are we going to get all this energy, which we're already short of? There is no shortage of energy. There is a shortage of power conditioning technology, like refineries, battery manufacturers, or solar collectors. There will be no actual oil shortage for at least 10 years. Longer, if we each take personal responsibility for reducing energy wastage and usage in a big way. We are being weaned, ever so gradually, by the oil guys who want to orchestrate the last 10 years of oil to be a pricing frenzy. They are consolidating their garrotte on the refinery industry, now. Someone should start up a company to build a modest refinery on a big old slow ship with tanker hose connections, perhaps an obsolete single skinned tanker? You could anchor it anywhere, and empty it if a storm threatened. A refinery is just a big old still, after all. You can make a moonshine still from an old coffee maker. Think of hydrogen as part of a battery system, a refillable battery, if you will. The hydrogen gets "charged" at a hilly wind or desert sun site, and tanked or pipelined to users, who "discharge" it to create a substitute for transpiration, where we cut down trees to build this city. It's not rocket psciance, it's rock and roll. If Vegas's sewers went to a solar lagoon, the water extracted by Zenon (TM) Zeaweed (TM) could provide hydrogen without having to pipe in special water, or poison the ditch to the sea. Is there a runoff from Vegas, a river, or something? Some of the hydrogen produced by solar power and electrolysis and stored under a tarp could even be used to provide peak load electricity in a turbine or internal combustion super clean "steam" engine, bonus exhaust: pure water. The dried crap, sterilized by the sun, would make good odourless fertilizer for corn to make corny diesel, gasahol, and livestock feed, for the rabbits or goats under the sunshade solar collectors. Trangenic goats can be used to produce very fancy medical drug feedstock, and would never escape death valley, whatever, unaided. Serendipity? Problems, or solutions? It's really all in our attitude. We want lotsa cheap durable solar shingles, and the right to sell excess power back to the hydro company, even at 15 percent efficiency, or windmills where we can't hear them and where there are no birds or bats! Low pressure H2 pipelines would not depress permafrost, and could even float on cables above the ground or river crossing using low pressure anti static plastic pipes, greenhouse ventilation tubes actually. Such a pipeline could be unreeled from a helicopter, and anchored in rock, filling with gas as it is installed in the air. Crews could use very simple straight clamps to essentially close the low pressure line wherever needed. Occasional ground valves could contain mishaps, like Caribou antler entanglements. We need lightweight, flexible solar cells to print on the tops of the gas bags, along with the telemetered pressure gauges, like the ones they are going to print on solar powered electro-deflective-gel fleshed orthinopter high altitude balloon launched surveillance robot birds, like they demo'd on Discovery last week. Ain't war technology great? What do you think they use to lift big balloons, H2? Helium? Don't make me laugh! Who do you think sabotaged the Hindenburg, and why? Who promotes expensive, inefficient helium to preserve their old technology? Yup, shipping magnates, the oil guys, the heavy pipeline guys, and wildcat drillers. That is the future, but don't look to the oil guys to put themselves out of business real soon, yet. I said it about tungsten, of which I have a now near worthless collection recycled from incandescent bulbs over the years, and I optimistically say it about oil, Like some one said about buggy whips. Horses might still be popular if it wasn't for the horse muck. Oil is becoming obsolete, just like coal did. There are energy wars being conducted internally, by rich traitors and poor scientist-enterprenuer heroes. Set the army engineers on it, if you want to see a peace dividend. Remember that quaint term "Peace Dividend?" There is lots more coal in the ground, we just don't need it right now, because oil is easier and more profitable. There is no shortage of energy, only of imagination. Terry K Iceland is blessed with practically unlimited geothermal energy. So they can produce hydrogen for their own use as well as export. Matt O. |
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