7 Responses

1. yes it can on both counts…

2. Thanks to Dear Leader, rubbers are free, so all we need to do is to demand that GM (supposedly we own it now) manufacture a car that runs on latex, and voila!

3. Unless storage problems are answered, it is very unrealistic.

   People whine about the amount of energy needed to create methanol and ethanol vs their output, but hydrogen has even a smaller input to output ratio.

   Lots of things can be made affordable and safe at the expense of profit in the private sector.

   Have fun with those nuclear reactors making hydrogen and the storage facilities being built by the lowest bidder.

   The less you worry about private sector CEO golden parachutes, the closer hydrogen becomes to being a realistic fuel alternative.

4. Not very realistic.

5. Its not, it takes on average twice the electricity to make Hydrogen than to just power a electric car. The carbon footprint from powerplants making Hydrogen completely off sets what would be saved from switching from normal gas.

6. Very realistic. The “safe” part is there in materials that hold the gas without possibilities of Hindenberg flare-ups. The affordable part is the rub. Like color TV back in the 50’s, people wouldn’t buy them until more shows were broadcast in color, and producers wouldn’t produce color shows until more people had color TVs.

   Heck, electric cars seemed unlikely, too, just a decade ago. Be patient. .. Take care!!

7. Not very. The energy required to extract hydrogen is far greater than the energy that can be recovered. Further research and development could close that gap but a little scientific principle called entropy gets in the way. Progressives do seem to not believe in science. It appears that that they believe that perpetual motion, cold fusion, and absolute zero temperature can be achieved. Do they also believe that there is a largest prime number and that you can really divide by zero?