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war or biohydrogen?
Two years ago I attended a seminar at HTWK Leipzig (University) regarding a special technology in the field of regenerative energies. We discussed about how biohydrogen in connection with fuel cells can solve the problem of shortage of fossil fuels.
Using that technology would change our everyday life in Europe dramatically. We would use biohydrogen, which is produced in local bio-power plants and our existing gas pipelines to serve every household. At each home we could generate power through fuel cells (which, of course, have to be developed, since they are not energy efficient by now).
This technology is heavily debated, because there are many companies worldwide, who profit from the electricity business as it is working so far. For further information and some statements from different people concerning this technology you can visit the website of Dipl. Ing. Karl-Heinz-Tetzlaff, who is a pioneer in that field.
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Comment by Christian Binder on May 17, 2012 at 8:50am
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This energy concept looks very future orientated and would be very eco-friendly. However, I think it will be very complicated to introduce it. One the one hand, a huge amount of investments for the infrastructre need to be provided. On the other hand, the worldwide energy providers have a lot of power and need to be confinced of introducing a concept like this. This will only happen, if they gain benefits from introducing a new energy concept ...
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Comment by Martin Meinel on May 21, 2012 at 8:49am
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Hey Christian, thank you for your comment. We also discussed those two topics during the seminar:
1) infrastructure: it would be no problem to use the existing gas net in Germany. Almost every city in Germany is served through that net and there is absolutely no investment needed. What has to be paid is the generators in each house, but this seems feasable for each household.
2) energy providers: that is the real problem. Why should they give up their existing power and their business model? Since the market is an oligopol in most of the countries and this new technology would needed to be served by local companies, the existing ones would lose their total market power. That is why until now this new technology is of course not supported by existing power providers and needs to be funded by smaller companies and projects.
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