European parliament votes to set up hydrogen infrastructure by 2025
The European Parliament has voted to approve a declaration laying out comprehensive targets to improve energy efficiency, increase the use of renewable energy and to set up a pan-European hydrogen economy. The plan calls for a twenty percent jump in energy efficiency and thirty percent cut in greenhouse gas emissions. The plan also envisions large expansions in hydrogen production and distribution by 2025. The declaration does not address either nuclear power or carbon sequestration. If hydrogen is to be produced from natural gas reformation than sequestration will be a necessary component of the process. Of course in the next seventeen years some of the hydrogen production techniques that are currently be worked on may come to fruition and methane may not be part of the equation at all.
[Source: Bellona]
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Howard Lee Harkness 9:06PM (5/26/2007)
"Of course in the next seventeen years some of the hydrogen production techniques...[rest of ungrammatical sentence snipped]"
No matter how efficiently or from what source the hydrogen is produced, it will always be substantially less efficient and less 'green' than straight EV. This is due to some fundamental laws of physics and chemistry, and is not susceptible to the whims of any legislative body, regardless of the level of their delusions of self-importance.
Even if hydrogen could be produced at NO COST, it would still be a significant pollution problem, since H2 is the most potent ozone-depletion agent ever produced by man.
The time is long past to abandon the idiocy of the so-called "hydrogen economy".
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Joseph 12:27AM (5/27/2007)
Has the Europe gone cuckoo??!?!
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Scatter 5:57AM (5/27/2007)
I hope this isn't going to be publicly funded!
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Howard Lee Harkness 10:23PM (5/27/2007)
Scatter, the ONLY way to get to the so-called "hydrogen economy" is public funding. Hydrogen is the fuel for people who can freely spend other people's money (or who have more money than sense). Those of us who have to spend our own, and don't have enough to throw away, will opt for something quite a bit more economical (and greener), unless coerced by government force.
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Chris M 2:48AM (5/30/2007)
Well, maybe sometime before 2025 they will come to their senses and call off the whole silly scheme. Widespread adoption of plug-ins will certainly help change their minds@
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