Sid,
It's funny you would post such a taunt, when you've never responded to the repeated posts wherein I've hit this point.
Your rooftop has enough area that, if covered with photovoltaic modules, you could easily produce enough hydrogen to power both your home and your car with PEMFCs. You will no doubt point out, correctly, that PVs are expensive, ineffecient even. But sunshine is free, and once the PVs are paid for, the power they produce is too. PVs have been demonstrated to last well over 20 years, and mind you that's PV technology that's over 20 years old...today's modules are much better and will probably last even longer.
The simple fact of the matter is that we as a race are an enourmous pack of morons if we choose to believe that we can continue to consume fossil fuels in the manner that we have for the last 60 years. It ain't gonna work indefinitely, and we'll destroy ourselves if we don't develop alternatives. We've got to stop being so shortsighted, and develop on those alternatives which offer the greatest long term rewards. Hydrogen fuel electrolyzed with solar power is the simplest, cheapest, most effective *long term* solution, even if it doesn't appear to be the most instantaneously profitable in the small minds of people mired in their pocketbooks.
The works of Drs. Peter Lehman and Charles Chamberlin deal explicitly in the economics of this type of system, and can be referenced at humboldt.edu
I'm sure that a little less than 100 years ago, there was a Sid Turtleman somewhere, who probably raised horses or built wagons, and trash talked the internal combustion enginge. Uneconomic. It'll never fly. |
