Word: hydrogenate
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...high speed when windmills are working, could be used to run electrical generators when the wind ebbs. University of Massachusetts Engineer William Heronemus has an even more imaginative scheme: he would use the windmill's electrical output to break down water molecules into their component atoms of hydrogen and oxygen. The highly combustible hydrogen gas could then be used as a fuel to power stand-by generators...
Johnson said the agency is pressing for legislative controls on industrial uses of hydrogen based products...
...technical problems encountered in coal liquefaction may seem to the layman to justify the granting of government subsidies. The process requires the introduction of large amounts of hydrogen to coal at high temperatures and under very great pressure: it results in a rough equalization of the ratios of hydrogen and carbon molecules in coal. Frederich Bergius developed the process for turning coal into crude oil in Germany in 1913, and Franz Fischer and Hans Tropsch devised a catalytic process for converting coal directly into gasoline in 1925. During World War II the Bergius and Fischer-Tropsch processes supplied the Nazi...
Fusion, on the other hand, requires extreme pressure and temperatures as high as 100 million degrees. Under these conditions, the nuclei of light atoms are energized (or speeded up) enough so that they can overcome their mutually repulsive electrical charges, collide and fuse. In the hydrogen bomb, the necessary pressures and temperatures are produced by first setting off a fission explosion. Controlling and containing fusion will be vastly more difficult, but scientists believe that the Russian-invented Tokamak (for "Toroidal Kamera Magnetic") system can be developed into a practical and safe reactor...
Inside the Princeton doughnut-shaped Tokamak, deuterium and tritium (both isotopes, or different forms, of hydrogen) will serve as fusion fuel. In the form of a plasma (a high-temperature, ionized gas), the fuel will be suspended within powerful magnetic fields. Thus the gas will be supported by nothing but magnetic force and will be insulated from the steel walls of the reactor. If the plasma touched the wall, the wall would be heated, the plasma would be contaminated and its temperature lowered. The powerful magnetic fields will be manipulated to squeeze the plasma, raising its temperature and increasing...