Nero wrote:Yeah...if only there was some material to withstand constant amounts of Hydrogen energy while using that energy to good use.
Diamonds...? Seeing as they are the toughest material... :-/

..what?
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What?

Ahahahhahaa....
That was classic...

Anyways, I did see, on.... umm....
Aww cabbage....
ooo Beyond Tommorrow! That was it!

Anyways, there's this guy whose houuse is run entirely by solar energy, coupled with Hydrogen Fuel cells.

A lesson for Nero, apparently needed:

Water, using electrolosis, is split into Hydrogen and Oxygen, which then fuse to provide electricity.
That powered the guys car, house, boat.

Neat, if somewhat (unfortunately) rare.

I don't understand why Ney York doesn't just cough up some cash, by a few acre's worth of solar panels, and spread 'em over the tops of buildings.
Lots of energy there.
Just a couple per roof, but there're a lotta roofs in New York.


Oh, and by the way, Diamond isn't the hardest known material.
Aggregated diamond nanorods are.

It should also be noted that several substances can scratch diamond.\

I know a building over this side of the pond is having solar panels on most of one side of the building, if New York architects did that on some of the skyscrapers then they could harvest a lot more energy. However the US doesn't seem so keen on saving the planet as the rest of the developed countries :P

^ How true.
What I meant by diamonds is that when those two are fused, that energy is quite powerful, even in a small amount. So I'm assuming that the fusing of the two will take place inside some sort of mechanism inside, your machine. But overtime that tank (I'm once again assuming) will very soon loose it's density. I was just coming up with some far fetched idea that diamond will somewhat give the mechanism a longer lifetime....

Hydrogen fuel cells are more useful as a sort of battery than they are as a fuel source - you need to split water into hydrogen and oxygen and that uses a lot of electricity. Hydrogen fuel cells are not a power source unless you can find a way of splitting the hydrogen using less energy than you can get out from combining them again, and that would violate the conservation of energy..

It would? Meh.

So, in the future everybody is going to be using the Metro?

Sorry, I;m completely lost on Nero's idea...
I know!!!
Just put some solar panels on top on the building in New York...
hell, LA needs it more, they can be the testbed.