I did take a look at that link and was hoping for a response from someone more knowledgeable than I.<div><br></div><div>My chosen area of study is Architecture rather than Engineering, but what I can tell you is the refining of aluminium uses vast amounts of energy compared to any other metal. It is in the order of multiples of that required for steel. I have heard the nick name used 'solid electricity'.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Unfortunately your propostion the metal is 'green' because is uses hydro is not a full appraisal. Firstly it doesn't consider the damage a dam does to the ecosystem. Second the process leaves toxic by products, including fluorides. I have worked at the Aluminium Smelter in Tiwai Point, New Zealand. The toxic waste there is buried just back from a pristine beach. Environmental laws have gradually seen them reduce the stack emissions, and that was the project I was working on. However I heard stories of livestock downstream from the stack suffering from birth abnormalities. I am sure working in that environment contributed to the cancer I suffered 10 years ago.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I would love to hear any counter argument for the Cornish Generator though.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div><div><br></div><div>Jason Stewart</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">The other day I posted an article on this site concerning:</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Aluminum into its oxide and in the process cracks water, freeing up hydrogen for use as fuel for a light car.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">By all accounts, using this gas in the place of any other fuel.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Distances and the amount of metal used in this attainment were mentioned.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">I was hoping for a reaction from one of the many “Energy Economists”</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Who lurk on this site, to respond with negative information regarding the impracticality and waste fullness of such a process?</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">I believe there is a large following on this site who are interested in obtaining electrical power using renewable energy, derived from carbon neutral sources.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">They might question the economics and ethics of using a refined ore as fuel.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">Instead of chopping down oxygen producing vegetation. <span> </span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">In this respect I am a nonconformist. I believe most Aluminum is produced by Hydro electric power and, so the CO2 is not in the equation.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">My second comment is harnessing a “free” supply of high temperature heat which is emitted from most Ice’s in the form of “Hot Exhaust”.</font></div>
<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">This is the place to install a reactor capable of converting beer cans into hydrogen as not too much energy would be needed to complete the reaction. Bubbling super heated steam through a molten bath of <u></u><u></u><u></u>AL<u></u><u></u> would give pure hydrogen.</font></div>
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<div style="margin:0in 0in 0pt" class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">The real question is: how much energy is locked up in a pound of <u></u><u></u>AL<u></u><u></u></font></div>
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