Originally Posted by Brian Austin Whitney
The cost of hydrogen is $2 dollars per gallon gas equivelent. And that is without infrastructure and economy of scale. I saw a PBS special on it which is what prompted this set of ideas.

Brian


That's a good point. However, that's about what most experts think the real price of gasoline should be. The current price is artificially inflated. But I'm getting off track....

My main point is that energy is energy - you are going to pay for it one way or another.

I don't see hydrogen as a long term solution. To my knowledge, there isn't enough naturally occurring hydrogen to power us for long - not if everyone is using it. So if we want to use it on a massive scale, we will have to create it. Usually this is done by electrolysis of water. That requires energy though. smile

So if you are running a car off of hydrogen that has been produced by electricity, which has been produced by burning fossil fuels, what good will you have done?

In other words, we have to separate forms of energy into what we are using as a fundamental source versus those that are transformed sources that we are using merely for convenience.

Scott

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