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To: pgerassi who wrote (124120)	9/18/2000 1:30:57 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) of 1572565

Please. The problems may be solvable, but saying that carrying around 25 liters of liquid Hydrogen, along with a refrigeration system, and routinely transferring said liquid in your local filling station, is easier and less dangerous than running 2 lb of propane/butane in your car AC is a little, er, hyperbolic? (leaving aside the dubious analogy of a VW gas heater, sheesh). Do you want to claim the costs of running H2 in automobiles will be comparable to running gasoline while you're at it? All this fancy H2 technology is at prototype stage at best. Lots of things look cool in prototype and research, but turn out to be not really practical when you try to scale it up. That's been the case with even relatively minor tweaks on the IC engine, like Sterling or Wankel, or even simpler things like water injection. Talking about replacing the whole transportation infrastructure this way is perhaps a bit premature? Then, there's the underlying problem of where the energy to produce the H2 comes from in the first place. Coal? Solar? Nuclear? Natural gas? Or lord help us, oil? All of these present problems. Cheers, Dan.

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