Re: Viable hydrogen vehicle by 2010

From: charliew2 (charliew2_at_ev1.net)
Date: 09/26/04 

Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 10:23:10 -0500

K. Jones <shadetree1999@hotmailNODAMNSPAM.com> wrote in message
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> "Tkalbfus1" <tkalbfus1@aol.com> wrote in message
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> > The problem with switching energy sources is that hydrogen cannot
> > compete with gasoline, since there is no current profit from the
> manufacture of
> > hydrogen for cars, there is no incentive to make the extraction of
> hydrogen gas
> > less expensive
>
> "extraction of hydrogen gas" ??
>
> You're just not getting it.
>
> Making hydrogen for use as a fuel, is a waste of resources in virtually
all
> applications.
>
> You use more fuel in making it, then you could ever recover.
> Much more efficient, ergo less fuels required, to use them directly.
> Converting fuel to hydrogen from is an un-necessary, wasteful step.
>

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I can think of only *one* application where this isn't true. For the
chemical processes where hydrogen is a byproduct, and the process is already
profitable, it makes a LOT of sense to recover the hydrogen. This implies
that the chemical engineering types could purposefully attempt to bias
process design towards chemistry that favors hydrogen as a byproduct.
However, even if this was successfully done, I doubt that enough hydrogen
would be generated to displace fossil fuels, as fossil fuel consumption in
the U.S. is truly immense.

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