-=> JASEN BETTS wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 JB> 27-Nov-03 11:11:00, Wayne Chirnside wrote to Tom Walker
 -=>> TOM WALKER wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-


 TW>>> Are yuo aware that Hydrogen released into the Atmosphere also Damages
 TW>>> the Ozone Layer.

 TW>>  What about the normal leakage from the MASSIAVE production and
 TW>> Transfer of the Hydrogen to the Fuel cell generating stations???

 WC> OK, looked up keywords "greenkouse gas" and "hydrogen".

 WC> Up popped a link to an M.I.T. report on the matter.
 WC> Seems hydrogen is not in itself a greenhouse gas but
 WC> extracting hydrogen from existing fossil fuels, G.W.B.'s plan, will
 WC> contribute to emissions of greenhouse gases.

 JB> did you check "ozone" and "hydrogen" ?

 Nope, and am a little embarrassed by my overlooking the obvious
 here as regards reactivity of ozone and hydrogen.
 Still it would liberate an O1 monotomic atom of oxygen which may
 quickly create another ozone atom combined with another 02.


 WC> This is all irrelavent to my optimistic hope that an M.I.T. researcher
 WC> finds a way to succeed in breaking the bonds in water in the manner in
 WC> which plants using photosynthesis do.

 WC> Plants do not contribute to greenhouse gases

 JB>  unless cows eat them :) and even then in the long term that's a zero
 JB> sum

I aware of cows and methane.

 WC> nor should any synthetic process based upon finding the manner in
 WC> which plants achieve this feat.

 JB> do plants prodiuce hydrogen gas?

Nope they bind it internally.
No reason to not research how plants accomplish
the task of breaking those hydrogen - oxygen bonds.

 
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