Oil born war would be totaly over, soon.
Let us save the world then from water war.
Think please in involving communities in Energy Administration instead of favouring complex networked concerns, you know what that means.
Thank you all in the name of peace.

pure hybrid energy generation ?? is there a specific term for combining renewable energies ?? what a great innovation !!!

Okay, now this is my order...I would like a hybrid that uses a natural gas engine, I would like to charge it using electrical energy that is generated by renewable sources, and then I would like to fill it right in my very own garage with natural gas generated by renewable sources, and I would like fries with that!

The amazing part of this article is that they plan to take hydrogen and oxygen and make a dirty fuel. All internal combustion engines, HVAC systems and cooking appliances can use hydrogen without the CO2. This is like turning Gold into lead. Solid hydrogen storage is safe and patented so no need to use dirty fuel storage vessels. We already pay a kings ransom for energy from the dumb grid. The reason cell phones and IPOD\'s catch fire is that they\'re hydrogen sponges. As the single most abundant element in the universe we already have all our energy needs available to us... it\'s in the air think fuel from air. With the right equipment we could go to McDonald\'s hook up our cars and be refueled in less than 8 minutes now that\'s a happy meal

Methane is climate neutral at 20x the greenhouse power of CO2??????! If stored, OK, but there will be disasters like the current spill of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. If it is to be stored as a combustible gas why not as hydrogen?? Such storage would likely be short term and any leakage relatively benign.

It seems apparent that a renewable energy farm supplying electricity for electrolysis would enable a hydrogen transportation fleet and methane to counter-produce electricity in a natural gas generating facility. However, how much carbon dioxide are we talking about, and where is that being utilized (flared off ?).
If it were possible to inject the carbon dioxide off-gas into a greenhouse where plants would up-convert it to oxygen, then this all makes sense. I\'ve yet to see an energy process that uses carbon dioxide as a fuel source. Anyone...? Thoughts...?

The ignorance astounds. Why methane? Um, because you can store it cheaply and already have an existing infrastructure to utilize it? You can happily store useful amounts of it at room temperature in a car fuel tank for a long time.
Hydrogen, unless you\'re planning on launching a rocket or have figured out your very own Mr. Fusion, is a positively horrible energy storage medium. It has a low energy density. It loves to leak. It generally requires cryogenic or extremely high pressure storage to have any sort of practical footprint. Hydride storage? Yeah, no. Fuel from air? Um, that\'s kinda where this methane (or it\'s source atoms) comes from...

A sad joke!! Eff is very bad. Making H2 is at best 60% eff then methanization is maybe 70% eff then converting it back to electricity is 30-50% eff so the whole process is at best 20% eff. I\'m sorry but that is not worth it.
Vs a battery which is 90% eff in most cases in and near 100% eff out.
But the notion that you need storage is not true as the grid already is made to handle it as demand is far more variable that wind or solar and the grid handles that easily. Even batteries only cost $10kwhr.yr easily paid for by charging at night and selling during peak power times. That this is a problem is propaganda made by the coal, oil and NG industries.

I have a simple energy storage idea, but I don\'t know how to market it. I would naturally like to profit from the idea. Let\'s be realistic!

I\'m with your Plasma Junkie. I wish people would think before typing too. At least they\'re reading... ;)