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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: TigerPaw who wrote (10552)12/16/2002 11:51:48 PM
From: S. maltophilia  Read Replies (1) of 89467
 
Possibly workable but on what scale and what cost? You would need to either compress or store huge volumes of hydrogen, and transport it to the equivalent of all our current gas station locations. This might work in coastal areas but it's a long way to Kansas (or Bavaria, Moscow, or Delhi). And there are times when the wind is less steady than others so figure on some extra storage capacity. It might be just as useful to put the entire apparatus under water and use tides and currents (no pun intended) to generate the electricity. Either way, highly unlikely in my lifetime - I can't see where the initial capital expenditure would come from, and I'm fairly certain there's no profit to be made from the Ballards and Plug Powers of the world.

Edit: Why even bother with fuel cells? Just pipe the resulting electricity into the existing grid and use more electric cars.
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