Is the United States ready for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles?

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#1 written by Hugo Reyes
about 1 year ago

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Cartainly. But the oil corporations are not.
#2 written by Dazz
about 1 year ago

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No. The technology isn’t mature and the infrastructure is not in place. It is also not clearly established how hydrogen will be produced. Obviously one way is through the use of electrolysis. It takes energy to generate the electricity to do the electrolysis and so where is that energy coming from? If it comes from the burning of fossile fues to power the generators, then the technology hasn’t done much to improve the condition on the planet.
#3 written by crazytrain_23_78
about 1 year ago

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Making hydrogen fueled cars is the easiest part. Making hydrogen and distributing it is the holdup. Much like ethanol, it takes more energy to produce hydrogen than the benefits you get from it. There will either have to be some sort of hydroelectric dam built to solely power a hydrogen plant or nuclear power will have to be used to produce it.
#4 written by szydkids
about 1 year ago

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No, we are not ready. The two big problems are size (expect stationary fuel cells to hit the market before portable ones) and handling hydrogen itself. It’s incredibly explosive. The trouble is most reactions to release hydrogen bonded to other elements (like in water) are endothermic, meaning they take more energy than they yield. There are promising advances in metal hydrides, but no one has perfected it yet. There’s also advancement in getting hydrogen out of methanol and/or ethanol, but that too needs improvement before anything remotely financially viable can be brought to the market.

Perhaps the solution is to use alternative energy (solar, wind, biomass) for electrolysis of water. Then the enery source and point of use can be separated with renewables.
#5 written by It's me again
about 1 year ago

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The citizens are, the oil companies that are posting multibillion dollar profits are not. Guess who wins.
#6 written by dzeyoyo123
about 1 year ago

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yeah, the technology obviously exists to make good electric cars already especially with the advancements in “fuel cell” technologies … i personally witnessed a test electric car that had incredible power and was smoking the rubber off the tires for several hours at a fuel cell battery developement plant in florida .. a friend of mine that worked there took me to show me … the other people are right … its the govt and big corporations that are holding the tachnology back from being released to the consumers .. think about it … we are still using ancient technology in gasoline burning engines .. we could have done away almost entirely with them years ago … its sad really ..

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