Why Aren't Aussies Making Hydrogen?.. They Should!

 Hi

So recently I have been thinking about Australia..

Firstly, enough sunshine falls on 'The Bush' desert in one day to power the planet for a year. One day! A Year! But storing this energy is a problem.. no.. wait.. no it isn't.

Secondly, the efficiency of Hydrogen , is a two pronged tine.. on one prong it is one the most energy density rich material. On the other tine .. a lot of energy is lost making that hydrogen in the first place.. but do you see where I'm going with this?

It doesn't matter if loads of energy efficiency is lost when you have so much going to waste daily anyway! Literal sun energy hitting the dirt. Doing nothing good. Causing fires.

So if you had a plant near Exmouth with a pipeline and converted oil rig off the coast.. pumping seawater to the plant on the shore..

so to not disturb the barrier reef..

Power from solar panels on large poles covering the area and providing power..

What would this gain Australia?

Hydrogen (pure)

Oxygen (pure)

Sodium (for battery production)

Deuterium (for future energy production, sell to other countries. requirement for Helium 3 reactors.)

It's bit like.. free oil. free unlimited oil. Yes the set up costs.. cost a LOT of money, but if the Aussies were smart they would make a Nationalized Hydrogen Company and sit back.. and watch all the money roll in! No more borrowing! No more problems over welfare! Lower taxation!

How would I do it if I were the Australian Government?

Firstly, I would buy all the solar panels I could get my hands on. Put them on massive poles the height of wind turbines (wind farms) and make them in to a power grid.

Secondly, Get an old oil rig out at sea, but in a place that safe to suck up loads of seawater, with a pipe that can move it to shore.. then I would create the plant.. first stage would be desalination, extracting the sodium. This can be done simply by heating the water to boiling and siphoning off the steam. The steam once cooled returns to a liquid and has three elements.. hydrogen oxygen and deuterium. If you run an electrical current through this liquid the three become gasses, ready to be captured.

Thirdly, ban all 'carbon puffers' .. petrol diesel etc.. If a company wants to sell a vehicle in Australia make it a law they can only sell electric and Hydrogen cars and lorries.. over produce Hydrogen (home market only) so you can offer it to Aussies for a fraction of the price of carbon fuels. You just banned their vehicle so they'll be mad, but if you help them save so much money it makes their new vehicle cheaper that'll turn them back in to happy voters!

Fourthly, Replace every petrol station's fuel with hydrogen.

Finally, sell excess resources, make a mint.. then let everyone just go about their day.. because it didn't really matter what fuel we used to get about, so long as we're not choking the planet.

When a new house is built, I would get three large shipping containers, make them in to huge Sodium Ion (or sodium aluminium) batteries and bury them under the house. Each battery should last 50 years,, so say 150 years until they need changed, and you never need to worry about capacity because these would be overkill.

peace

Dava (Scottish.. Saor Alba!)