March 22, 2005, Utsira Wind To Hydrogen
Ten or fifteen years ago in this space, I had wonderful discussions with some very "knowledgeable" people here at DU - all of whom regrettably made it to my idiot ignore list - about how wind to hydrogen was going to save the world.
It powered 10 homes.
I claimed - to some catcalls from the, um, audience - that Norway, like Denmark, was an offshore oil and gas drilling hell hole that was putting lipstick on the dangerous fossil fuel pig that Norway and Denmark use to generate their revenue.
Predictably, Utsira was funded by Stadtoil:
Stadtoilhydro Utsira presentation.
It is now 13 years after this
world changing!,
CLIMATE FIGHTING! project started up, and it was definitely responsible for all of the billions of homes on the planet now powered by wind powered hydrogen, because, um, Norway, the country in the world with the most experience with hydrogen production by hydrolysis has demonstrated how wonderful wind energy is.
Of course, many people have objected to these billions of homes powered by wind generated hydrogen, because of its potential for diversion to nuclear weapon purposes. Norway, as students of history will recall, has the world's longest experience with hydrogen generation with electrolysis, the side product of which, owing to isotope effects, is heavy water.
People have historically been very concerned about this diversion, so much so that in 1943,
British trained Norwegian Commandos parachuted into their then Nazi occupied country to blow up an electrolysis plant as well as to sink a ferry to prevent heavy water from falling into the hands of the Nazi nuclear terrorist
Werner Heisenberg.
Personally, I think, despite the billions of homes now powered by wind generated hydrogen because of the wonderful Norwegian experience at Utsira, that we should phase out electrolysis because of the risk of nuclear war.
By the way, despite the vast experience and
lessons learned by people like the nuclear energy despising big mouth, um, whoops, I mean, um "scientist" Benajmin Sovacool, the concentration of carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere has reached, as of Christmas Eve, 2017,
407.26 ppm. No one now living will ever see a value of less than 400 ppm again.
Still, I think this is not as bad as all the nuclear wars we've been having lately because of the diversion of deuterium from wind powered electrolyzers into the hands of nuclear terrorists. I'm sure the anti-nuke Benjamin Sovacool, who saved the world from a climate disaster with his anti-nuke rhetoric will get right on phasing out deuterium production by generating energy by prayer and a healthy dose of the ever popular wishful thinking.
It works every time.
Sovacool, who formerly was a professor at the University of Vermont Law School, but now has joined the faculty at Aarhus University in that
offshore oil and gas drilling hell hole of a country, Denmark, should know. He has a BA in philosophy and communication from John Carrol University, an MA in rhetoric from Wayne State University, another MA in Science Policy and a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech.
This makes him much, much, much, much more knowledgeable about nuclear technology than say,
Per Peterson who despite having a Scandinavian name, is a professor at the UC Berkeley University Department of Nuclear Engineering, who has written obviously silly papers like this one:
Spent Nuclear Fuel is not the Problem claiming that spent nuclear fuel hasn't killed hundreds of millions of people around the world, which, as we all know, it has.
Have a nice weekend.
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