Steve W. wrote:
> > >
> > > WRONG. Hydrogen is NOT a fuel source.
> >
> > Wrong what? I didn't say "Hydrogen is a fuel source". I said that
> > hydrogen fuel cell technology is one way to power vehicles that
does
> not
> > *require* petroleum.
> >
> > > It is made from other sources.
> > > Currently 99 percent of it is made from TADA --- Petroleum, AKA
LPG
> and
> > > Natural gas. NO other source to produce it from for lower cost
in
> large
> > > enough quantities to even be useful. ALL other methods take more
> energy
> > > and money to produce the Hydrogen than the Hydrogen can ever
return.
> >
> > Is it your contention, then, that billions of dollars are being
spent
> on
> > research without viable plans for production and distribution of
> > hydrogen by the expected to-market date of 2012?
> >
> > If you know otherwise, what's your source? I'd love to read about
how
> > all this exhaustive R&D that's going on that will be of no use at
all
> > (because you don't personally know how they plan to provide the
fuel).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joe
>
> Yep that is my contention. Those BILLIONS are being spent for USELESS
> research. The fact is that Hydrogen as a fuel has been done already.
How
> to store it, how to burn it. Already been done. What NONE of this
> research has shown is HOW TO CREATE THE HYDROGEN in the first place
for
> low cost.
What do you think are the ways to create hydrogen that have been tried
but are too expensive, and what are their repsective costs? "Too
expensive" is an absolutely relative term.
Joe
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