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"Jack May" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> "John David Galt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>> Jack Dingler wrote:
>>> The hydrogen economy has been touted as a replacement for fossil fuels,
>>> which release carbon dioxide when burnt, thus contributing to global
>>> warming. Burning hydrogen produces only water.
>>
>> But since you first have to produce the hydrogen using some other form of
>> energy, the whole concept of a "hydrogen economy" was dimwitted from day
>> one.
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> Your argument makes electricity dimwitted also. Hydrogen is a portable
> fuel for the most part like electricity, not an energy source. The
> problem is having a practical portable fuel for transportation.
> Electricity is not a practical portable fuel
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>
>
A hydrogen automobile network is entirely possible but not until the
overhead is put in place, and no one is going to do that until oil gets to
much higher value than at the present time.
news:vECbd.393227$Fg5.39992@attbi_s53...
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> "John David Galt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> Jack Dingler wrote:
>>> The hydrogen economy has been touted as a replacement for fossil fuels,
>>> which release carbon dioxide when burnt, thus contributing to global
>>> warming. Burning hydrogen produces only water.
>>
>> But since you first have to produce the hydrogen using some other form of
>> energy, the whole concept of a "hydrogen economy" was dimwitted from day
>> one.
>
> Your argument makes electricity dimwitted also. Hydrogen is a portable
> fuel for the most part like electricity, not an energy source. The
> problem is having a practical portable fuel for transportation.
> Electricity is not a practical portable fuel
>
>
>
A hydrogen automobile network is entirely possible but not until the
overhead is put in place, and no one is going to do that until oil gets to
much higher value than at the present time.