Dec
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cooker12555 asked:
do you think it will replace all other fuels seeing we can get it from water
LONNIE
do you think it will replace all other fuels seeing we can get it from water
LONNIE
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9 Responses to “do you think hydrogen is the fuel of the future?”
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OLIN
Either that or compressed air.
NOBLE
Maybe, maybe not! Who knows!
WENDELL
The ox cart is the pickup truck of the future.
XAVIER
I certainly hope so. It is the most abundant fuel we could possibly find and it has no pollution whatsoever. Water comes out of the tailpipe. Isn’t that amazing?! I would buy a hydrogen fueled car if I had the opportunity and if they had more fueling stations.
SANFORD
I think it very well could be if we can make more technological advancements to make it happen. It is certainly a clean fuel.
JOHNNY
Yes and no, it will be a major fuel of the future but not replace everything.
It is difficult to store safely, if you could store it a a “gas” station
then you have the problem of DUMMIEs trying to put it in their car.
After watching people fill up with the stuff we use now while
smoking and driving off with the hose still in their car
I sure don’t want to be around one of them trying to fill up with
a explosive gas.
We also have to get to the point where regular fuels are expensive enough that hydrogen can compete with them.
If if costs $500 dollars to drive 100 miles on hydrogen
and only $100 dollars to drive 100 miles on petrol.
You can tell what people will continue to buy.
IAN
It will be used more than it is now, but won’t replace all other fuels.
NICOLAS
I fear that with all its promise, hydrogen will not be workable in the next fifty years. Problems with distribution, storage and application will put a serious bind on implementing its use. For the more immediate future look to ethanol and bio diesel to help reduce petroleum usage and make vehicles burn cleaner.
LONG
I heard an interesting rave the other day…that there is possibility of a closed system using bromide somehow to create hydrogen- eliminating the need for storage of explosive gasses. The bromide is stored within the system, and converted back to its original composition using solar electricity- and then re used.
I’m doing chemistry at the moment, and cannot see exactly how this would work from a chemical point of view- but its possibly worth considering.
The other major impediment to any alternative fuel is governments reliance on fuel excise (in Australia around 38c per litre).
There are at present, some alternatives to reduce usage of hydrocarbons, such as ethanol (which will have the same excise by 2008, making it annatractive to develop infrastructure) and biodiesel made from such products as canola (Canola farmers would still have to pay excise on fuel made and used on their own farms- which taps that on the head).
I dont subscribe to paranoid conspiracy theories about multinational oil companies, but they also rip consumers off when they can get away with it. e.g. war with Israel and Lebanon- neither is a major producer but prices went up. Situation calms down to an extent- prices stay up, good chance of another B.S. excuse to keep them there.