I have been puzzling over this for a while.
There's a lot of research going into hydrogen storage methods, because storing enough hydrogen to compete with a good ol' gas tank is a major problem.
Then there is the problem of where you're going to get the hydrogen, how you're going to get it to a pump, etc.
Why mess around with this when we can just make all-electric cars? Wouldn't the money be better spent on battery research?
Thermodynamically, the loss of energy involved with hydrogen production, phase changes, chemical reactions in a fuel cell, fuel transportation, etc. make it impossible for hydrogen to beat a purely electric solution.
Electricity is easily distributed on existing networks and is a very efficient means of storing and using energy.
Anyone care to explain why so many people are big on hydrogen when we could be going straight for electric?
2007-06-05
09:16:06
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