Do you think we Could gather Hydrogen from Jupiter to use?
Question by hotsauce_ross7: Do you think we Could gather Hydrogen from Jupiter to use?
Do you think we could gather hydrogen from jupiter one day to use as a fuel? Since Hydrogen is the most common element in the universe, and Jupiter is made up mostly of it, wouldn’t it be cheap and there be plenty to travel?
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Answer by Grandpa Mac
Hydrogen may be a wonderful fuel, but without a corresponding amount of oxygen (or other oxidizing agent), we couldn’t get any power from it. Not to mention the cost of such a trip and gravity that would crush just about anything trying to land there.
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about 1 year ago
It is not only possible, it is a great idea. I would say that engineering hurdles are always easier to overcome than a lack of political will (and pessimism, for that matter). If we made up our minds about it, we’d be mining Jupiter in less than 30 years.
about 1 year ago
I think its a horrible idea. Think of the amount of fuel and energy you would require in transportation costs alone, not even factoring in the amount of time it would take for a transport to reach from Jupiter to Earth.
It’ll be much easier to take all the energy that would be used in transportation and to either use it to steam-reform methane or to electrolyze water.