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To: count-your-change
"Propane, gasoline and NG offer such great advantages over hydrogen that hydrogen’s “turn” has been rolling around for at least the past fifty years and never arriving. I’m sure it will continue to do so for another fifty years."

Given shale gas and oil coming on like gangbusters, that's probably true, but in the long run, hydrogen is as inevitable as taxes, barring some huge advance in technology. But "my" point is about the technology to safely use it. Which exists, in full, today. There may be improvements, as there always are, but if, magically, the cost to produce hydrogen dropped so that it "was" economically a better deal than fossil fuels, the technology exists now to handle it.

46 posted on 08/12/2011 3:53:31 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog
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To: Wonder Warthog
Understood. Yes, we have the means of safely handling hydrogen but it offers its own unique set of problems which so far have outweighed its advantages.

I don't know how long the long run is but for the foreseeable future hydrogen just isn't going to be fuel of choice. The “Hydrogen Economy” doesn’t appear to be “Home Ec.” yet.

48 posted on 08/12/2011 5:08:08 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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