Devion said:
First of all, the water atom aka H, is the smallest/lightest atom know to mankind, it leaks through everything.
You can make a combination with Barium, but it's unstable and toxic.
Also it cost more effort to make Hydrogen then it will give in return.
Last but not least, you can make it a liquid, which makes it easier to contain, but you keep the temperature under -253 celcius, 20,27 Kelvin or -423 Fahrenheit.(Which can be done under high pressure)
Egads, I haven't actually posted or read in this thread at all since the hurricane. I was expecting sillyness, but I'm dissapointed at how much there is.
Water is not an atom, it is a molecule of two Hydrogen and one Oxygen atoms. Hydrogen is the smallest, lightest atom period, they will never find anything smaller than one proton and one electron that could still be called an atom. Hydrogen can be seperated from water with some electricity and two different metal electrodes, sounds pretty easy to store it. The major concern is hydrogen's explosive nature, flammible gases and flames are bad. No one would dream of storing liquid hydrogen . . . that's one of the fuels we use on the space shuttle.
Someone mentioned the untapped US reserves . . . it's called the TACTICAL reserve for a reason, it's meant to fuel our war machines in the event that the United States needs to get fuel to our military. In case you missed it in the news, the United States is at war, tapping that reserve is not an option.
I don't give a **** about loosing the loop, or all the refineries, or all the grain.
That being said, it's time to say my piece.
I'm appalled that no one cares about all the lives that were lost. We had a 25 foot wave fall on a city that was below sea level accompanied by a catagory 5 hurricane. That's only 5 feet smaller than the Tsunami, yet no other country has lifted a finger to aid us.
You always hear that Americans are greedy, lazy and troublesome. But we are the first ones there in any other situation. Disaster brings out the best in us, prodding us to open our hearts, and yeah, our wallets. I personally sent money to the Tsunami victims, and I will be sending needed medical supplies to the New Orleans area via the company I work for. The best part is, I don't have that money, but I will send it to do something for them. My question is, where is the rest of the damn world? Thousands of people died, my countrymen and women, and their children.
Still, people whine about gas prices when you could be dying of thirst and heat exposure surrounded by crazy people with guns. Shame on you all. It seems to me you are worrying about the wrong things at the wrong time.
My thoughts and prayers go out to anyone who lives on the gulf coast, though you are unlikely to see this untill power and internet are restored (and probably your house).
