Eugene Coyle wrote:
The electricity for producing hydrogen is most likely to come from coal or nuclear generation. Hydrogen is not a panacea -- it is not even an energy source but rather a storage medium.
The coal industry is pushing synfuels as a replacement for oil generated energy, not hydrogen <http://leighm.net/blog/ndc_synfuel_transcript/>, so I'm going to leave them out of this as they are currently not a 'player'. I knew hydrogen is a storage medium for energy (as are coal and oil), but as a de-centralized energy source for the smaller, more human communities of the future, AFAICT water... not coal or fission, will be the choice for generating that hydrogen (unless there's going to be a nuclear reactor in every town and city), and they've yet to work out the transport scheme for centralized distribution of LNG, no less hydrogen. Decentralized generation will be the most viable situation in lieu of dramatic changes in governmental and petro-chemical industry policy. And we're back to the privatization of a valuable energy resource. Not to mention human neccesity. Water. Leigh http://leighm.net/
