i heard they wanted to make those hydrogen powered cars? but..?

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i also heard that the only way to extract hydrogen from water is with the use of fossil fuels. so that really doesnt get anywhere right.

and same thing with the electric car. you plug it into your house, but your house electricity comes 70% from burning fossil fuels.

yeah, u can extract it with electricity. but 70 % of the way they make electricity is through fossil fuels.

Answer 1

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Correct, hydrogen is not a source of energy, it is an energy carrier. So it performs the same function as a battery, except less efficiently.
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But don't despair about electric cars. While it's true that much electricity is made from fossil fuels, driving electric still makes a lot less pollution than gasoline does.
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There are several reasons - for one, much electricity is wasted overnight because powerplants can't shut completely off when demand goes down. There is enough wasted electricity available in the evening to charge several million electric cars without any increase in pollution at all.
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But even without this fact, electric motors are still several times more efficient than gas engines. Plus fuel burns much more efficiently in large plants than it does in your car. Also, distributing energy by wire to charge your electric car is much, much more efficient than trucking gasoline to thousands of service stations.
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All these efficiency improvements are easy to prove - they are reflected right in the price of fuel. The cost of gasoline is 10 to 15 cents per mile. Driving on electricity only costs about 1 cent per mile. And efficiency is the reason for the difference.
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Greater efficiency = many more miles on less fuel = much less pollution.
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Answer 2

There is a rather long article about it here.

http://sln.fi.edu/inquirer/hydrocar.html

Most commercial hydrogen is made as part of the processing of natural gas. As a fuel it is about 20 percent more expensive than a comparable amount of gasoline

That's the main problem. Will the public pay more?

Answer 3

No, you can extract hydrogen from water using an electrical current. I have seen a show on hydrogen powered cars, pretty interesting.

Answer 4

There are fuel cell cars that run on hydrogen for their energy and produce just steam for exhaust. The fuel cells still cost a quarter million dollars, though, so they aren't yet practical for production models.

Answer 5

Hydrogen does no longer come as a pre-present resource of potential like fossil fuels, yet somewhat as a provider, very comparable to a battery. it will be produced from both renewable and non-renewable potential factors. a a danger income of hydrogen is that it would nicely be produced and ate up continually, using image voltaic, water, wind and nuclear potential for electrolysis. at present, notwithstanding, hydrogen vehicles utilising hydrogen produced using hydrocarbons, produce more beneficial pollution than vehicles eating gasoline, diesel, or methane in a present day inner combustion engine, and far more beneficial than plug-in hybrid electric powered vehicles.[6][4] it is because, besides the actual undeniable reality that hydrogen gasoline cells generate no CO2, production of the hydrogen creates added emissions.[7] even as techniques of hydrogen production that do not use fossil gasoline will be more beneficial sustainable,[8] at present such production isn't economically available, and diversion of renewable potential (which represents in trouble-free words 2% of potential generated) to the production of hydrogen for transportation applications is inadvisable.[4] curiously the Hydrogen vehicle is a very complicated mess. a more beneficial efficient option is to apply recycled cooking oil waste as a gasoline for re outfitted diesel vehicles. with new efficient diesel vehicles which incorporates those used in the Audi and Peugeot GTP1 vehicles we would have quickly and efficient vehicles. mutually ridding us of waste. this can don't have any pollution. So why waste our time with the different stuff? The Audi has gained each and every Le mans and Seabering race. those are 24 hr races and Peugeot has are available 2d. So if it is quickly and sturdy you opt for it is already right here. Now with that gasoline we may be able to have 0 emissions.

Answer 6

everything comes full circle
fossil fuels are doomed to die
must learn to ride horses

Answer 7

You're right, but you are not politically correct. You should be ashamed. LOL

Answer 8

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