These "experts" have here been made to seem like total ignoramuses.
Neither oil nor coal figure in the projections for a hydrogen economy.
In the shortest run, hydrogen for fuel cells would be derived by
reforming natural gas or methanol--neither of which processes
releases appreciable amounts of carbon dioxide. But the mass
production of hydrogen will be through electrolysis. And the
electricity required needs neither oil, coal, nor uranium. It will
come from renewable sources. In Iceland, where the transition
is furthest underway, geothermal energy is to power the process.
Elsewhere solar or wind energy will do the job--and we have
inexhaustible resources of both. The Bushits' "plan" is so ridiculously
incomplete and underfunded as to amount to a demagogic alibi
for continued obeisance to the oil and coal barons. What is
needed is a "Manhattan Project"-scale program for hydrogen
production, storage, and distribution plus major incentives to
raise the level of fuel-cell use to the quantity where the
economies of scale of mass production kick in and reduce
the cost of nonpolluting quiet vehicles to and even below
the cost of today's internal combustion monsters. And by
the way, such a program would create millions of jobs.
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>Leading environmental groups have also criticized the US government and
>Europe for failing to put renewable energy sources such as wind and solar
>power at the heart of their hydrogen policies.
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64