Re: House Resources Committee Chairman: hydrogen is "bull***"

<lkrubner@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > Also tell us how hydrogen is to be produced
> > pollution free or where you intend to drill your first hydrogen well.
>
> I understand your complaints about the lack of energy density in
> hydrogen, but they seem besides the point in hybrid cars. In a car you
> are already buring fossil fuels to create energy, the point with hybrid
> cars is then to recapture some of that energy and store it as hydrogen,
> for later use. In a hybrid, the hydrogen doesn't replace fossil fuel,
> but gives an energy boost by capturing and resuing some energy that
> otherwise would go to waste. The magazine Scientific American had a
> greta article on it, I think last year.
>

I didn't read the article, but this is the first I've heard of anyone
trying to kludge together hydrogen with a hybrid vehicle. Would that have
been in the April issue? Intentional or not, it certainly is a joke.

Don W.


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