Hydrogen cars? Fahgeddabeddit!

[John Thornton]

My understanding is that unless you can get the cost of electricity down to 
around $0.03 per kWH from about $0.075 per kWH where it currently stands 
hydrogen extraction isn't economically viable even factoring in an 
environmental cost of $1.60 per gallon of gas (a cost that is externalized 
but is in my opinion too low). It isn't economically viable that is unless 
everyone decides the higher costs are worth the decrease in environmental 
degradation. I and many others would be willing to pay a 25% increase fuel 
costs to offset the pollution costs. Hydrogens price is currently higher 
than that but most auto manufacturers believe that this range is attainable.

John Thornton


>On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Jordan Hayes wrote:
> > > store energy from green resources (wind
> > > solar) than current batteries do.
> >
> > Wait, how do you make hydrogen out of solar cells or windmills?
> >
> > Hydrogen fuel cells are a one-way process: hydrogen in, electricity out.
> > You can't "store" anything there, except the potential energy in
> > hydrogen.
>
>         i think the idea is the chemical process that gives us the
>hydrogen is powered by the solar/wind energy. don't know the specifics but
>the hydrogen is basically 'distilled', thus converting the energy from the
>sun/wind into potential energy of the hydrogen in a hydrogen fuel system.
>
>-gr