Re: End of the Road for Hydrogen

Pluto wrote:
All these factors make it very doubtful that hydrogen will be the fuel of the future. As
we approach Peak Oil and petrol becomes more and more expensive, economies and cutting
back on our travel will be the only solution.

All of what you say is dead on. I first realized that a few years ago. It was a sad, sad day when the US Bush admiistration fell for the hudrogen fuel ploy. Sometimes I thought that there was a Democrat saboteur in the White House...

My (humerous) analysis has been; "Hydrogen needs to be adsorbed or bound to something to make it easily poratble in large amounts. Why not bind it to somethicng exothermically oxidizable like carbon? Then both the hydrogen and its carrier, carbon, can serve as fuel for locomotion.

Better yet, let that carbo-hydrogen material be created by potosynthesis via light from our local thermonuclear source, the sun? The waste oxide of hydrogen and carbon can then be recycled. Ergo, we have a closed system!. We do have some assurance that the sun will be some thoudsands or millition of years before it goes dim.

We do have a bright future here on earth...

How will you change your lifestyle when petrol costs £5/litre? (That’s $36.95 per US
gallon.)

Smaller cars, fewer long joy-trips. More walking (good for the body).

Angelo Campanella.

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