Is Hydrogen the future fuel and how far away is it?

Question

gas prices rip off

Answer 1

well they say that if we could create nucler fusion with hydrogen safely in a car we wood be driving using water because theers enough water in just 5 sq inches for every 5 inches deep of lake superior and we could power USA for 500,000 years i readin a book but we have the ability to do it juss not big enough quantities to carry out power yet

Answer 2

I'm reading "Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy" by George Olah and two others in his research group at USC. Chapter 9 is titled "The Hydrogen Economy and Its Limitations."

1) We have a vast distribution network for gasoline and it is incompatible with hydrogen. So, an entire new distribution network would have to be established to parallel our oil & gas distribution. Who will pay for that? The oil companies?

2) Liquid hydrogen is a cryogenic liquid and is difficult to store. This makes for great difficulties which must be solved safely enough for millions and millions of cars to use hydrogen.

3) There are problems with storing compressed hydrogen like too little can be carried on board and absorption of hydrogen by the metal, which makes it brittle.

I think the hydrogen economy is far, far away and this makes it attractive to oil companies. They seize on the hydrogen economy, throw a little money its way and ignore working on other means of weaning us off oil.

Just my $0.05 (inflation, ya know)

Answer 3

Hydrogen is already being used as fuel, from space crafts to Automobiles. Next is on water, some mechanical Engineering students from India, have already developed a prototype and a couple of test drives. Presently they are in the process of perfecting it.

Answer 4

within the next 5 years id say were at a dangerous spot with low oil because somebody is buying all the extra to make us suffer any ideas who .

Answer 5

I don't believe the technolgy is the problem but the corruption of business and gov't .