I had the same feeling about the "hydrogen economy" BS until I heard a thing on
NPR last week. Apparently some company has come up with a small scale system to
make hydrogen from water using a solar powered system. They envision it like a
battery system, store up hydrogen to use in cloudy periods. An interesting side
effect though is if your system were big enough you could make some to power
your car. They have a system that makes hydrogen right in the solar panels and
they're supposedly using some amazing low cost catalyst...
The guy claims it'll be ready for prime time in ~8 years but as far as I'm
concerned this is the first plan including hydrogen that makes even a glimmer
of sense. Of course big oil will fight it tooth and nail...
-Curt
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 13:30:38 -0600
From: Peter Frederick <psf...@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] MB 240D Diesel Hydrogen hybrid
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I would love to see the milage rating for a diesel-electric hybrid,
should be about 30% greater than a gas/electric for city driving.
Same deal on the highway, though -- worse than the equivalent non/
hybrid.
Hydrogen fuel is a pipe dream -- the only current source is de-
carbonized methane, so the CO2 (and all that heat/work) is dumped
into the atmosphere during manufacture. "Sequestration" is bu...it
too -- who wants a volcano of CO2 snow when the underground storage
blows out (as it will, surely).
Better to burn the methane direct and DRIVE LESS!
Peter
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