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Old 16-October-2007, 08:09 PM
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That's right.

And even if we have a hydrogen economy at some time in the future, there will be no advantage in mining hydrogen from Jupiter or even Uranus and sending it to Earth; the energy consumed in extracting it from a gas giant's gravity field and sending it across the solar system would be more than the energy obtained from the hydrogen itself, so it would be better not to bother.
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