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In January 2018, During the Prime Minister’s Japan visit, the following was reported:

In coal, the agreement paves the way for further collaboration in the hydrogen energy supply chain, which includes work by a Kawasaki Heavy Industries-led consortium to investigate the potential for using brown coal in Victoria's Latrobe Valley to convert into liquid hydrogen for export to Japan for use in regional industry and power supply.

AGL CEO Andy Vesey said:

‘"Hydrogen could be a clean fuel to replace coal. And Australia can take advantage of this energy source."

Well, not directly, because the hydrogen will predominantly go offshore to Japan. 

The Australian Financial Review reported:

“AGL Energy will host a $500 million trial led by Japanese giant Kawasaki Heavy Industries to convert Victorian brown coal into liquid hydrogen for export in what represents a major scaling-up of efforts to commercialise the clean energy technology”.  

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CAN I ASK WITHOUT LAUGHING MY HEAD OFF "HOW DO YOU TRANSFORM BROWN COAL INTO HYDROGEN?"...

 

Fair question. The answer is:

 

Energy giant AGL this week unveiled plans to produce hydrogen power at its Loy Yang A coal station. But how do we transform coal, which is often thought of as simply made of carbon, into hydrogen – a completely different element?

In fact, coal is not just made of carbon. It also contains other elements, one of which is hydrogen. But to get a lot of hydrogen, the coal needs to be “gasified” rather than burned, creating compounds that can then be reacted with water to make hydrogen. This is where the majority of hydrogen comes from in this case – not from the coal itself.

So how do we make hydrogen?

Now we know the key concepts, let’s start again at the start. To produce hydrogen from coal, the process begins with partial oxidation, which means some air is added to the coal, which generates carbon dioxide gas through traditional combustion. Not enough is added, though, to completely burn the coal – only enough to make some heat for the gasification reaction. The partial oxidation also makes its own gasification agent, carbon dioxide.

Carbon dioxide reacts with the rest of the carbon in the coal to form carbon monoxide (this is the endothermic gasification reaction, which needs heat input). No hydrogen yet.

Carbon monoxide in the gas stream is now further reacted with steam, generating hydrogen and carbon dioxide. Now we are making some hydrogen. The hydrogen can then be run through an on-site fuel cell to generate high-efficiency electricity, although the plan at Loy Yang A is to pressurise the hydrogen and ship it off to Japan for their Olympic showcase.

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Hydrogen produced in this way is not a zero-emission fuel. Carbon dioxide is emitted through the combustion and thermal decomposition reactions, and is also a product of the reaction between carbon monoxide and water to make hydrogen and carbon dioxide.

Ah fuck! stop laughing and read the rest of this dirty trick at http://theconversation.com/explainer-how-do-we-make-hydrogen-from-coal-and-is-it-really-a-clean-fuel-94911

 

So we still produce quite a lot of hot air and global warming gases on this "brown coal" stuff that could not be made with ordinary coal because "it would not have enough hydrogen in it"...

 

I hope I could cry laughing, but I suffer from dry eyes... May as well "alchemise" shits and turds. They contain far more hydrogen than brown coal.

 

 

 

beware of some enzymes...

Scientists have created a mutant enzyme that breaks down plastic drinks bottles – by accident. The breakthrough could help solve the global plastic pollution crisis by enabling for the first time the full recycling of bottles.

The new research was spurred by the discovery in 2016 of the first bacterium that had naturally evolved to eat plastic, at a waste dump in Japan. Scientists have now revealed the detailed structure of the crucial enzyme produced by the bug.

The international team then tweaked the enzyme to see how it had evolved, but tests showed they had inadvertently made the molecule even better at breaking down the PET (polyethylene terephthalate) plastic used for soft drink bottles. “What actually turned out was we improved the enzyme, which was a bit of a shock,” said Prof John McGeehan, at the University of Portsmouth, UK, who led the research. “It’s great and a real finding.”

The mutant enzyme takes a few days to start breaking down the plastic – far faster than the centuries it takes in the oceans. But the researchers are optimistic this can be speeded up even further and become a viable large-scale process.

“What we are hoping to do is use this enzyme to turn this plastic back into its original components, so we can literally recycle it back to plastic,” said McGeehan. “It means we won’t need to dig up any more oil and, fundamentally, it should reduce the amount of plastic in the environment.”

 

Read more:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/16/scientists-accidenta...

Please be careful. Plastics are "organic" hydrocarbons... These enzymes could wipe life out of the planet... I remember that in the sixties, washing powder with "enzymes" ate my (artificial fiber) socks faster that I could put them on.

brown electrons in his brain...

There’s no such thing as green electrons or brown ones. Your TV and fridge run just the same on solar power from Queensland, wind power from South Australia, hydro power from Tasmania or coal power from the Hunter Valley. Interstate sharing of electricity makes power cheaper and more reliable.

 

Such are the neo-stupid words of Andrew Dillon — the head of Energy Networks Australia, an association representing Australian electricity networks and gas distribution businesses. It goes downhill from then on with only mentioning "price" and cost without a breath about the origin of the electricity — clean or not.

 

We have to know here that rightwing pundits still blame the outage in South Australia on the windmills when the grid was down.

The National Electricity Market (NEM) commenced operation as wholesale spot market in December 1998. It interconnects five regional market jurisdictions – Queensland, New South Wales (including the Australian Capital Territory), Victoria, South Australia, and Tasmania. Western Australia and the Northern Territory are not connected to the NEM.

So how did the south Australian problem occur when it was connected to the NEM? Good question. simple answer: THE WIRES AND POSTS HAD BEEN TAKEN OUT BY A MASSIVE STORM. The wind turbine had to be feathered as they had no way to supply electricity anywhere. The same problem occurred in Europe when the French wire-grid was 70 per cent destroyed by a massive storm in 2000. There the nuclear power stations had to be shut down for the same reason that there was no way to transmit the electricity.

 

Andrew Dillon has an interest in making sure "States do not go it alone"...