Hydrogen cars? Fahgeddabeddit!

[groschke at luminousvoid.net]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Kevin Robert Dean wrote:
> "The hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle has low emissions and
> energy use on the road—but converting a hydrocarbon
> fuel such as natural gas or gasoline into hydrogen to fuel
> this vehicle uses substantial energy and emits greenhouse
> gases.
>
> “Ignoring the emissions and energy use involved in
> making and delivering the fuel and manufacturing the
> vehicle gives a misleading impression,” said Weiss."
> Full:
> http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/2003/mar05/hydrogen.html

	I always thought that the strenght of the hydrogen fuel cell was
its capacity to more efficiently store energy from green resources (wind
solar) than current batteries do.  This was supposed to be its strenght:
storage and transport of energy from renewable sources.

-gr