twh (05/12/83)
A couple weeks ago, there was some talk of NASA making their own hydrogen via a coal burning facility to be built in Florida. Have they considered making the hydrogen using a solar powered machine ? In the May 1983 issue of "High Technology" magazine, there is an article, "Hydrogen Energy Creeps Forward." The article talks about a BTL ( Murray Hill ) scientist, Adam Heller, and his attempts to do this. Its seems his system is the most efficient to date. NASA and Texas Instruments also have a system for doing this. Question: Has Bell Labs, or Texas Instruments talked with NASA or the DOE about bringing these test versions into a workable, practical, usable system ? If not, why? If so, when ? Where ? By who ? It would be a shame for a group like NASA to stoop to BURNING COAL to produce hydrogen when they have developed systems that did not have nearly as much ground work already done. Florida would be an ideal place and NASA an ideal developer or CO-developer of such a system. While I'm at it, is there anything being done to bring nuclear fusion into a practical reality as well. Maybe we should just wait for Japan, Germany or Russia to do it first. Anyone with any enlightening information please respond. Timothy Hitchcock Michigan Bell 23500 N.W. Hwy. Rm. W130 Southfield MI 48075 (313) 424-1027 sb1!mb2b!twh