Comments by "buddermonger2000" (@buddermonger2000) on "Can a new fuel solve climate change?" video.

  1. Issues: first you're trying to use a gas. The costs associated with using gasses are INCREDIBLY high with regards to transport. Frankly if it were viable we'd be using electrolysis of water and then using the hydrogen-oxygen reaction and be using those hydrogen fuel cell cars (but they didn't work due to issues transporting or creating the necessary hydrogen). So it's just stupidly expensive. And then from that you do have to somehow mix a solid into a gas, and then you have to somehow separate the sodium from the compounds which it naturally resides in. Edit: no that is NOT the cost of getting sodium. The cost of getting sodium is storage, lubrication to keep it from reacting with other substances, keeping chlorine gas from poisoning everyone, transportation (arguably the easiest part), heating, and then getting the filaments to both not melt and also facilitate the movement of electrons. Oh also making sure CHLORINE doesn't react with a bunch of stuff. Also please don't advocate for putting particulate matter into the atmosphere.
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