It is the cleanest fuel known, it’s cheap...
Blatant lie at the start is not good.
Hydrogen is not cheap. It is quite expensive. Expensive to produced, expensive to store.
I wish it were cheap, but it is not.
And let’s talk about DANGEROUS.
That’s what makes it expensive.
Hydrogen goes bang.
Bearing in mind that many of these so-called “breakthrough technologies” end up proving to be pipe dreams, if this specific path proves valid it would be a major earthquake in the realm of energy production.
Also, the article says it produces “no pollutants”, only water into the air.
Isn’t water vapor a greenhouse gas?
Once we get that free energy thingy working, we can use it to make almost free hydrogen. /sarc
The second line tells why is might be less costly.
Hydrogen is also bulky unless you can store at cryogenic temperatures.
I so wish we could use it.
At what pressure will they store H2? It is able to blister metal containers and, because of its small size, there are very few materials able to contain it. Hydrogen fires are very hard to detect and very dangerous because of the invisible flame. Ask any refinery operator who works in the Reformer unit.
Hydrogen is the MOST common element in the universe by far. Just not in pure form. The covalent bond in H2O is so strong that it takes more energy to break it than what the hydrogen produces. Therefore I don't see this going anywhere.
mining, smelting, shipping, reclaiming...doesn't seem very eco-friendly.
From what I remember of the Shuttle launches, they had to continuously fill the external tank right up until a few minutes before launch as the liquid hydrogen kept boiling off. I don’t see how this would be practical in an automobile.
Plentiful is a better word, perhaps. Currently, it is expensive to produce, and damned dangerous to store.