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Technology Stocks : The Electric Car, or MPG "what me worry?"
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To: Eric who wrote (648)12/5/2008 6:18:48 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 17519
 
The problem with hydrogen (burning hydrogen it in an internal combustion engine, using it as a heat source for a sterling engine or other external combustion engine, or far more likely using it in a fuel cell car) is not that isn't not efficent enough. Or that burning hydrogen creates CO2 (producing hydrogen can release CO2 depending on the method, but you can do it without CO2 release, burning it doesn't produce CO2), but rather the problems with distributing and storing hydrogen.

If on a per pound or per energy produced basis, hydrogen was as easy to distribute and store as gasoline, than hydrogen would be a serious contender. But there are all sorts of problems with distributing and storing hydrogen, whether you do so as a compressed gas or in liquid form. Possibly some type of hydrogen compound could work better, but then your also transporting and storing the compounds you aren't going to use as fuel, and you have to separate the hydrogen from the compound.
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