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You can produce hydrogen at home using blue algaea, but something tells me politicians aren't interested in voluntary individual solutions.
by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y ago
You can produce hydrogen at home using blue algaea, but something tells me politicians aren't interested in voluntary individual solutions.
- eru 4y agoThis is rather inefficient in terms of labour.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoSunshine, water, a pinch of nutrients, and time. In return you get hydrogen and blue algaea are edible to boot! Economies of scale are helpful; every house participating, with windows lined with the little things, would increase efficiency.
- jokoon 4y agoit would require a lot of piping and other tools to compress that hydrogen. a nuclear plant scales better. although the system you talk about might already exist and I'm curious to see a prototype.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoOregon State University on how algae produces hydrogen https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_F6qC0sK4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Or_F6qC0sK4 Cody's Lab has a cheap algae production setup https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=64cEmjtwRgw https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=64cEmjtwRgw
- eru 4y agoIt's even more efficient to just grow plants to eat. However we still don't feed everyone from small household gardens.
- TEP_Kim_Il_Sung 4y agoIn my setup I will use the weird tasting algaea to feed fish, which feed bacteria, which feed plants, and in turn I will get a balanced nutrient rich diet from all stages.
- eru 4y agoEach step up in the food chain costs you about 90% of biomass / energy. In any case, I'd be a pretty bad gardener. I'm more valuable to society (and thus my own wallet, too) when employed making computers run slightly better. In general, subsistence farming has low productivity.
- waste_monk 4y ago>However we still don't feed everyone from small household gardens. If I had to survive solely on crops I've grown myself I would perish. Putting aside economies of scale, I am lucky if I manage to grow a couple of decent size tomatoes or a decent carrot (singular). I'd be lucky to grow enough food for a day or week, let alone a season. Partly this is because I live in an area with bad soil (too close to beach, sandy), and partly because I just seem to be a well meaning plant killer. Would be nice though. I have had some success with growing seedlings in a mini greenhouse, but as soon as they're out in the yard in bigger pots they start to fail.
- dontlaugh 4y agoOr you can grow hemp to make oil to put in your diesel engine. Much simpler than hydrogen. And you can uses the husks for hempcrete too.