Why the Hydrogen Feud Needs to End: Analysis

2009 Nov 4

Everyone's got to contact their elected officials at all levels of government and request that the liquid hydrogen technology be pushed forward. It is the ONLY clean alternative with endless supply, at this time, and BMW has proven that it works. The liquid hydrogen can be made using sun powered facilities in the US areas that have a lot of sun, an pretty much be produced fro free once the original equipment has been amortized! It can be shipped using the liquid hydrogen technology to anywhere in the US cleanly! There are liquid hydrogen highways in the world, California is making a push to offer liquid hydrogen filling stations, etc...The fight with the lobbyists is going to be a HUGE one, because there is a lot at stake...The Big Oil wants to keep selling, well, oil! They don't want to invest into any new infrastructures, they never do, remember the refineries...This way they can keep the supply low and the prices high. The Big Three want to keep selling, well, what they have! And that proves to be tough enough, as their output both from the quality standpoint and creativity standpoint is at best mediocre. But they get our tax dollars because we keep bailing them out! So as you can see there are no incentives for both main players!

By Christopher Beau

Now, the news article:

Hydrogen fuel cell research is in the midst of a tumultuous debate. Proponents of the fuel continue to sink money into research and marketing—citing promising statistics and lab-grown developments. Opponents refute optimistic claims with their own numbers, asking that researchers shift time and money to more promising technologies, like batteries. So what exactly is the state of hydrogen fuel cell research? Unfortunately, that depends on whom you ask.

This past summer, the war over hydrogen escalated. After secretary of energy and Nobel laureate Steven Chu publicly railed against the near-term potential of hydrogen energy research—Chu claimed, among other things, that it would take "four miracles" for hydrogen to work—the Department of Energy presented Congress with a 2010 budget excised of transportation-related hydrogen funding. And lo, like a great hand on an even greater keyboard, Congress tapped out a grand "undo," restoring more than $200 million in slashed funds to some 190 projects around the country.

Perhaps it's a sign of progress that the federal government is skirmishing not over whether to pursue alternative fuels, but over how many such technologies are worth investing in. Still, the hydrogen debate is not a healthy one. There are accusations hurled by bitterly opposed camps, each painting the other as ignorant, liars, or both. There are numbers crunched on both sides, with utterly different results. And there are past grievances that need avenging. What could have been a civil discourse between researchers has become, instead, a deathmatch between battery-powered electric vehicles and hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicles—if you will, two zero-emission cars enter, one zero-emission car leaves.

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