Hi Ron, > And what makes the hydrogen ---- Power stations burning fossil fuel....
That was my first thought - but they cleverly included a part that said the hydrogen was made using - wait for it .. 'wind generated electricity'. (Yeah, I know - wind farms don't grow on trees .. but they are multiplying fast in the Thames estuary - hydroponics perhaps?) I'm not a great fan (excuse the unintentional pun) of wind energy - it only works when the wind blows (and if it blows too strongly they have to close them down - which seems a bit daft to me), so we still need full backup from other sources, but it is a great sop to the masses who feel that government should be doing 'something'.. I pin my flag to the nuclear mast for the longer run - save the wind for the sailing dinghies! > Thus instead of one convert of Diesel to Motion we have.... > Power Station ---- Convert to Hydrogen --- Convert to Electricity --- > Convert to Motion > I wonder which one is more efficient.... It's a shame they can't mine it, like helium :-) > it always takes an "incident" to focus the minds (hydrogen is the > *only* pressurized gas that if vented can burst into flames without any > ignition source - just thought I would toss that idea in...) I didn't know that :-( Are there any LPG NBs around? With the increased cost of red diesel surely this has now got to be a better, and cleaner, option than previously - albeit the storage must be more of a problem. Trevor
