Re: hydrogen powered cars?

Don Lancaster wrote:
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But worse yet, that is a 65% efficiency at uselessly converting very high value kilowatt hours into fewer very low value ones. Electrolysis is basically, fundamentally, and inherently a destroyer of value.

There are ALWAYS more intelligent things to do with electricity than throwing away most of its value in electrolysis.

Give me an example: I want to drive a vehicle - (a) a car or (b) a plane. The energy available is electricity. What solution would you suggest?

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