Hydrogen and Vegetable Technology

Do you remember the autumn of 2000? At the gas station blockades in England and the angry protests across Europe? If it is about energy, people seem to understand no fun! The substantial cause of price rises: The industrialized nations (United States and EU) are no longer capable of self-promotion by the oil - World prices low to keep the shortage of crude oil has been used and OPEC countries determine the price! To counter this, for the U.S. economy becoming increasingly threatening Scarcity, at least temporarily prevent the U.S. ready for aggressive wars to lead. Under these new Framework

A previous niche product of agriculture in a completely new light: vegetable oil, the future of gold farmers, not only as food and industrial raw materials, but in Increasingly well as energy and fuel in importance will win.

Vegetable oil is stored solar highest biochemically Density.

Each seed has a portion of the natural vegetable oil given:
A brilliant start to the seedling among the various Environmental conditions and yet totally independent of light and Nutrients the opportunity to shoot and root formation to give. In comparison to Biomaterial (wood, straw), biogas and vegetable oil is the densest Energy form of photosynthesis With an energy density of approximately 9.2 liters per kWh, it is almost exactly between gasoline (8.6 kWh / l) and diesel (9.8 kWh / l). Unlike gasoline and diesel is vegetable oil However, regenerative, CO2-neutral and free of sulfur, heavy metals and radioactivity. It consists only of carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and a little oxygen (O) in a ratio of about C60H120O6. The current use of gasoline and diesel is a depletion finite resource of petroleum and are not in place Cycles. Vegetable oil on the other hand, can and will again regionally and globally closed, allowing natural cycles. This is particularly true for the CO2 issue.

Despite all the advantages, but environmentalists, farmers Energy experts and the usefulness of vegetable oils for fuels frequently questioned and controversial. In the foreground mostly the following questions:

- Can the fossil vegetable oil at close to replace it?
- Is it the Oilplantattach sufficient agricultural Land?
- Close-to Oilplantattach and food crops are not mutually from?
- Is Oilplantattach in large-scale ecological and world possible?
- Does the future, unique environmentally friendly energy sources not hydrogen?

For decades the media spread the idea that hydrogen is the ideal fuel of the future and the fuel cell everywhere usable technology to heat and electricity from hydrogen cleanly to produce. The announcements by the automotive industry (eg hydrogen BMW and combustion of the fuel cell at Daimler / Chrysler) have almost a hydrogen euphoria. Very one hears little about, however, where does the hydrogen come from many aims. Natural gas from fossil around? Then we have environmental and Climate change considerations virtually nothing gained. It would be most environmentally friendly, hydrogen electrolytically from Water using solar energy to produce (solar-hydrogen). Among scientists, however, increasingly widespread skepticism at the universal use of hydrogen technology. Major reasons favor: The physical properties of hydrogen are on the earth at atmospheric pressure and normal temperature conceivable unfavorable. Than Hydrogen is the smallest element is very simple, but extremely volatile: It diffuses even through the steel walls of a pressurized bottle! Gas has there relative to its volume in a very low energy density. But even when liquefied-253°C, its energy density with 2.3 per kWh/ L only quarter of those of vegetable oil (9.2 kWh / l) at 20°C. And Production and liquefaction of 1 liter of hydrogen is currently around three times more foreign energy needs, as for the extraction of 1 liter Vegetable oil. Taken together, this means that energetically vegetable oil seen twelve times performs better. In Table 1 is a comparison of the optimal targeted solar-hydrogen technology with the technology to vegetable oil 10 parameters have been made. The result: Only during combustion The two cuts the hydrogen energy technology better (if not optimized combustion of vegetable oil are namely undesirable CH radicals), all other 9 points fall clearly in favor of vegetable oil technology. In the overall energy balance (Storage, transportation and filling losses included), the technique of hydrogen technology in vegetable oil Ratio of approximately 1:15. That means that the vegetable oil technology is about 15 times energy-efficient.