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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA["the effort to lower the overall reliance on very pricey (and, you know, scarce) jet fuel"<br><br>Hype, hype, hype.  I bet the hydrogen fuel it used is far more expensive than jet fuel.  Furthermore, I bet that fossil fuels were used to generate the hydrogen.  Get back to us when both of these objections are overcome.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Jessica Tufts]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 4th 2008 4:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[The fact that a jet can use Hydrogen as fuel is the accomplishment.  Hydrogen does not have to come from petroleum based products.  Great job Boeing! ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[aquacalyx]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 4th 2008 4:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[The real deal will be the HYDROGEN home heating system.  This will save the planet.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Saul]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 4th 2008 5:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[I have a question? What is the source of the Hydrogen for the Airplane? If the Hydrogen comes from the electrolysis of water, you need a source of cheap electricity to sepate the water molecule into Hydrogen and Oxygen. Other than the convenience factor and that it is not a hydrocarbon fuel, the NET ENERGY BALANCE is NEGATIVE (just like Ethanol) which means you put more energy into the process than you get out in the Hydrogen!<br>  Places like Iceland with huge geothermal potential and small human populations are ideal areas to manufacture Hydrogen from water. Iceland could become the OPEC (maybe OHEC) of Hydrogen production.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Joseph Leslie]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 4th 2008 6:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[How stupid we all are. Boeing is simply using a centuries old process wherr many farmers used plain home made "water for fuel" to power their tractors. "Hydrogen on demand",from a simple home made concept. Anyone can produce this type of safe and nonpolluting power but we have been brain washed by the big powers-that-be to thinking we must use "killer" fossel fuel for power when there are now millions who are paying about a penny a gallion to powere their vehivles and warm their homes. Wake up world. Why do you think that the price of oil is going so high? They can see the hand writeing on the wall and are cashing in before it is too late.<br>An opened eye can see forever.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sharandrudy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 4th 2008 8:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[Every glass of water is part hydrogen. Adding the numbers one gets 18 as the molecular weight of the compound. 2 of the 18 are hydrogen. So about 11% is the weight fraction of hydrogen. Extracting it and storing at high pressure or as a liquid is not a basement hobby lab exercise. <br><br>Almost any chemistry introduction has a demonstration of using DC  current to fill two water filled columns with the separated gasses, O2 and H2. Volume of hydrogen is obviously twice that of oxygen. <br><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[duke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 4th 2008 10:55PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[Every glass of water is part hydrogen. Adding the numbers one gets 18 as the molecular weight of the compound. 2 of the 18 are hydrogen. So about 11% is the weight fraction of hydrogen. Extracting it and storing at high pressure or as a liquid is not a basement hobby lab exercise. <br><br>Almost any chemistry introduction has a demonstration of using DC  current to fill two water filled columns with the separated gasses, O2 and H2. Volume of hydrogen is obviously twice that of oxygen. <br><br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[duke]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 4th 2008 10:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[when the fossil fuels run out in a few years I bet there is suddenly a well developped easy source of energy in place to replace it, they'll probably have anti-grav motors in place and on stand by<br><br><a href="http://freeextras.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://freeextras.blogspot.com/</a><br><a href="http://lifeorsomethingnotquitelikeit.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://lifeorsomethingnotquitelikeit.blogspot.com/</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Daniel Gaunt]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 6th 2008 4:45AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[Hydrogen powered aircraft may soon become a reality.  Millennium Cell (traded on the Nasdaq as MCEL) has developed and holds patents on its Hydrogen On Demand system.  It utilizes widely available boron to produce hydrogen as it is needed.  This system was proved safe and effective last year is a nine hour test flight of a small unmannded vehicle for the U.S Air Force.  Larger scale applications are sure to follow.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Don Stevens]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 7th 2008 1:14AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[There is no shortage of fossil fuels.  We are using the existing fuel in a wasteful manner.  Nuclear powerplants should be mandatory. France is 80% Nuclear, they have the right answer to a non problem.  The United States gets 48% of it's oil from Canada and only 13% from the  Middle East. Tell the Arabs to kiss our behind and let them swim in oil or dictate a price per barrel that wont make us dependant and bankrupt!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jim van vranken]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 7th 2008 11:55AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[what kind of gas kept the German Air Ship  Graf Zeppelin in the sky  before it was stuck by lightening as it was docking in N.J.I thought it was Hydrogen Gas!   ooooPs ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[sunnywun]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 7th 2008 9:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[Low pressure hydrogen and local geothermal energy used at the home or business without transporting it will solve the energy crisis nicely.  Hydrogen can be generated by solar collectors of the newest variety that work on cloudy days and are not destroyed by hail.  A small well or bed of coils five feet or slightly more will do a good job of heating, cooling and supplying hot water by using geothermal energy.  This technology already exists, we need to improve it and make it readily available by mass producing the units and materials.  Government can help through low cost financing and research grants along with tax incentives to both producers and consumers. Barack Obama has a vision for this new alternative energy production and tax plan.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Robert Alexander]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 9th 2008 7:05AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[Most of the people who commented misread the article. It is NOT A JET running on hydrogen. It is an electric prop plane running on a hydrogen fuel cell, and the tech will likely be used for recon and combat drones. Its like comparing a golf cart to a fet-fueled pulling tractor. Sheesh. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[davidebert]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Apr 10th 2008 3:37PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[THAT IS JUST GREAT ! ! !    BUT WHAT TYPE OF ENGINE DOES<br>THE AIRCRAFT HAVE ?  IS IT A PISTON ENGINE WITH PROPELLOR,<br>OR A TURBINE ENGINE ? THE FUEL CELL PRODUCES HYDROGEN<br>FOR FUEL , BUT THERE MUST BE SOME KIND OF DEVICE TO USE<br>THE FUEL .]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Carl Tapp]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 16th 2008 10:33PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Boeing's Hydrogen-Powered Airplane Completes Test Flights]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/04/04/fuel-cell-airplane-completes-test-flights-in-spain/</guid><description><![CDATA[The aircraft in this article has a hydrogen fuel cell stack, which produces electricity by combining the hydrogen in it's fuel tanks with oxygen in the air. The electricity is then used to run an electric motor that turns it's prop. Hydrogen can also be burned like oil derived fuels in an internal combustion engine, but like all ICEs, the energy lost in the process through friction and unutilized heat make it highly inefficient. The fuel cell application is two to three times more efficient than engines burning fuel, whatever that fuel might be. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Josh]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Jun 21st 2008 11:05PM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
