National Hydrogen Association talks about technical hurdles
The National Hydrogen Association is meeting in San Antonio, Texas this week and the hurdles in the way of hydrogen cars will be a big topic of discussion. BMW, Honda, Toyota, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen are all displaying some of their hydrogen powered vehicles at the conference. From the car-makers perspective, the biggest problem they have to overcome is storing hydrogen in the vehicle.
Solid state storage is one area that many researchers are working on while others like BMW are testing insulated tanks that would keep hydrogen in a liquid state. BMW vice president of clean technology Frank Ochmann thinks that it will be 2025 before hydrogen cars are common.
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1985 Gripen 1:21PM (3/22/2007)
2025 huh? That's about 15 years away. Sounds about right. The perpetual 15 years...
Hydrogen is a scam. It still takes fossil fuel to create electricity to extract hydrogen from water, so why not just put that fossil fuel directly into the cars? Seems to me like it'd be more efficient. Oh, that's right. We've got hydrogen-creating algae now!
But while car companies can tout their hydrogen work, it distracts everyone from asking why they don't work on REAL solutions to the problems.
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Chris M 7:09PM (3/22/2007)
Actually, the National Hydrogen Associations biggest problem will be persuading people to ignore all the alternative solutions (like electrics, "plug-in" hybrids, biofuels, etc.) that are more compact, much more efficient, and far cheaper than the H2 solution.
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