New process for making hydrogen

COMPLETELY acourd!!! Biodiesel is most sheap and ecologic option of renovable energy... now remember that my country are inside of biodiesel projects. at may 21, the president (Michelle Bachelet) said that biodiesel will be our first option of energy ( we have some energy problems, because Argentina have many internal conflicts, and is posible that they will cut the Chilean requirement)ops!!!, well biodiesel is the response...
and to USA too...

Problem with that theory: massive profit for whoever makes it work. The potential profit of a fully viable and cheap alternative energy source is almost incaculable. If anything, the oil companies would try to steal it for themselves to ensure a complete monopoly on all types of energy. They could produce the cheap energy, then charge full price for it, thus making their profits even larger.

The fact is, no alternative energy source has proven cheap enough to compete. Solar costs too much for most people to install, even with tax incentives. Wind is limited to certain locations and that is cut even more by local protests following the old "Not in my backyard!" rhetoric.

And as I mentioned, biodiesel has problems in this country with the main crops only producing one yield per year. And with that you also have to take into accound how much energy is lost from farming, harvesting, and processing the crops. Sugarcabe is far better, since you basically hack it up, squeeze out juice, and ferment said juice. But sugarcane can only grow in a teeny little area in the US. That's why genetically engineered kudzu is the answer. Someone seems to be working on that, so I need to hurry!

I must also mention cold fusion. That odd effect was actually thrown out by physicists who were so sure it wouldn't work that they designed their independent tests poorly to make sure they wouldn't find an effect. It didn't agree with their theories and so had to be disproven. But the Navel Lab in San Diego recently picked it up again and found that with a properly made palladium catalyst, doped with about 1% boron, there is some type of fusion reaction occuring. However, it's activity is haphazard, it has a low yield, and it's duration varies enormously. They don't even know why it happens yet. And without that knowledge, it's impossible to design a system to increase the effect. The most accepted theory is that the crystal matrix of palladium, which absorbs deuterium or tritium, accelerates electrons and some collide with neutrons, converting them to protons after all is said and done. Thus, helium 3 is formed, which is what is mostly detected from the reaction vessel. This reaction is well within defined physical laws and could work in systems with relatively low energy.

The other alternative energy for electricity that is proven to work is nuclear fission... and, good lord, the protests that ensue if anyone in Congress even thinks of building a new nuclear plant! Nuclear energy done right is very clean these days and fuel can be reprocessed much more efficiently than before. Plus, pebble-bed reactors use fuel that is separated in a way that it cannot melt down. France has used the reactors for decades with no accidents. And the waste? Meh, just send it to Jersey. Nobody here will even notice. ;P