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1. Well, hydrogen filling stations have been created using solar panels. However, this is highly impracticle, as it takes way too many solar panels for just a week’s worth of hydrogen. This system currently could not sustain America’s lust for automobile travel.

2. all human inventions will be showed as they are good luck with inventing stuff.

3. Yes,they use hydrogen which is much more plentiful than oil,and clean.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell

4. of course.

   except that the guy who would dare to put it in the market now, would be shot by the rich US oil companies and the rich arab oil producing countries.

   its all a giant cheating scam with scum both in the us AND the arab oil producing countries.

   hydrogen cells are perfectly adapted and don’t tell me that if we have technology to blow up the earth or to send some small weasel millionaires to the moon, we don’t have the means to develop hydrogen cells (that exist already).

   it’s all money and scum in governance that prevents it.

5. No, hydrogen it’s not an alternative to petroleum for producing energy.
   The reason is that petroleum is a primary energy source (you don’t have to produce it), while hydrogen is an energy vector (to produce it you have to use other primary sources such as petroleum or nuclear).
   Of course this doesn’t mean that the hydrogen technology is useless. As an energy vector, hydrogen is a good solution to transport energy from one place to another with stricter environmental constraints.
   For example, you may produce hydrogen in a big plant far from urban areas, where the pollution can be more efficiently limited, then you use the hydrogen as clean fuel for city cars.

6. We might conserve a wee bit if they can really get the ball rolling and they fully develop the system. BUT~ How long is it going to take and how expensive will they be upon initial mass production. I think the price will be high and the benefits low at the onset. BMW is working on it and my chances of getting one is slim to nothing. I have too many kids so that one went out the window. If they ever get it down to a virtual science and 3-4 years of mass production would be enough for Ford or whoever to come along with something efficient and less bucks. Another caveat: I hope the things are well made. If not, the death toll will rise and they will yank it off the market due to individual and class action lawsuits.

7. They already have developed fuel cell technology. At present, it’s production releases about the same amount of GHG’s.
   But then, the microwave oven was originally about the size of a refrigerator in the 50’s. Yep, they were big and inefficient.
   I hope it doesn’t take that long to develop a better production method.

8. We need to develop alternative energy sources to generate the hydrogen, such as solar, wind, etc. You are right, much of the energy now used to generate hydrogen is fossil fuel. We need to get higher mpg for vehicles and get people to use mass transit as well.

9. Hydrogen production units that would provide just fine for a single gas station have been built that run off of the power grid and convert water to hydrogen that work just fine. They don’t require fossil fuel. There are many ways to generate electricity.

   It is an area that needs work. Strangely enough water is still the best source for hydrogen. Reforming it from oil results in trace amounts of carbon monoxide being left in the hydrogen gas. That results in quicker distruction of the fuel cell’s fagile membrane that generates electricity. This is the main issue stopping hydrogen fuel cells right now. It is purer, but more expensive to get it from water.