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Thoughts on Starting the Hydrogen Economy

JUN 01, 2005
Phil Stripling

As I understand it, if hydrogen is burned, the only “exhaust” is water. We currently send tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere; has anyone looked at how much water we’d be sending out, I presume as vapor, under the hydrogen economy and what effect all that water would have? I visualize something like Venus, where the planet’s surface ends up covered in a huge cloud—at least as bad as carbon dioxide—that traps in all the heat. Is that what would happen?

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Phil Stripling. San Mateo, California, US .

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Volume 58, Number 6

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