Re: Burlington gets region's first hydrogen station

Baba wrote:

"Steve Young" <bowtieATbrightdslDOTnet> wrote in message news:Qa6dndPkP66-AzHZnZ2dnUVZ_o-dnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


"... hydrogen production plant at Burlington Electric Department "


Like to take a shot at how many thousands of kilowatt hours it took to make
that tank of hydrogen? Prolly close to many peoples paycheck. I'm betting
we'll simply flip to electric vehicles and cut out the high loss middle man.
BTW, what kinda vehicle was that they used in the demo? ;)

Hydrogen as a replacement to fossil fuel is such a farce.
We'll see Mars settled before we see a hydrogen economy.
Electric will be energy's common carrier, not hydrogen.
For electric, the infrastructure is already in place and hydrogen has
NONE at all. Nothing existing will work for hydrogen.



Hmm. you don't understand. Hydrogen is used to produce ELECTRICITY.
These new cars have ELECTRIC MOTORS. In future all cars
will be electric and use HYDROGEN ENERGY as fuel to create
electricity, ie. like a super battery (--> see Fuel Cell technology).
The advantage of hydrogen is that it is clean energy as it is made of water by electrolysis and better methods.

Hydrogen fuel cells make good batteries and that is all. They are not an efficient energy source their best role would be for the storage of excess energy such as that made by a wind mill farms during very windy days or hydroelectric dams during peak river flows and them put the energy back into the grid during slack times. Until the fuel cell is made safe and light weight you will not see production fuel cell cars, and that seams to be a long way into the future.

Since water
is enough on earth it will also solve the energy crisis.


That is the dumbest statement that you could have made. Water is not an energy source it is the result of the combining of hydrogen and oxygen, (i.e.. fire) it is used energy. To make hydrogen from water you must use more energy (electricity) then you will get back from the hydrogen wither you use it in a fuel cell or burn it as a replacement for nat. gas.
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