Forget Petrol - Hydrogen as Fuel
September 16th, 2006
Things have been busy around work - and this is busy in general, not just this subject. this digg is kind of related to some of what we’re working on - Now, I’m not an engineer, but in my day job I might be considered PR - which isn’t the case either. Nobody told me to say or write anything.
I just don’t have anything else to write about at the moment.
I see the whole thing as a chicken-and-egg problem - “the whole thing” being hydrogen becoming the primary fuel for automobiles.
A company builds an accessible gas station. There is demand, because cars run on gas. people come and fill up gas gans for generators, lawn mowers - and the occasional molotov cocktail.
A Diesel pump is added - and it gets used, because some trucks and motor vehicles run on diesel.
But why would you (currently) as a hydrogen pump? There are storage regulations to follow, money to be paid setting the thing up - and who has any need for hydrogen anyways?
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It’s the same thing for car companies. Who buys a vehicle for which no fuel is available?
- Those rich enough to build a fueling station themselves
- Nobody
I’d happen to believe the second group is larger.
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Back when cars origanlly started to become popular, it was the same issue - if you need to get one, you either need a nearby gas station, or need to install your own pump. And the pump option was more feasible, because there was less regulation back then. Back at home, our family has two spots to prove that - one pump for gas, the other for diesel.
BAH to this notion of a “implicit agreement” between car companies and fuel companies. That the popular methods of extracting hydrogen currently use fossil fuel. The whole process of changing you energy source is revolutionary - and established comapnies are going to try and make it evolutionary as possible, thus keeping their profits coming in as long as they can.
Every energy source has its problems, its objectors - Nuclear has ‘emissions’ that are rather perminent. Wind turbines take up space, and often work well in ’scenic’ places. Gasoline is used on such a large scale, its emissions are quite evident and its supplies are slow to get to, not to mention finite. Solar needs a lot of space and sunny days. Electical power needs to be generated and storred somhow to be mobile. Ethanol, even with corn beaing cheaper than it has ever been, still is expensive as gasoline at its high point.
Horses defacate. Anywhere. They. Want.
-Sud.
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