Hydrogen is more abundant than natural gas. Coal, oil and Gas are massive hydrocarbon sinks which can be readily interconverted into any form of fuel we desire through FT or other syngas based routes we wish.
Most hydrogen is burnt as part of the cracking/reforming of gas and oil production. They utilise it as a free source of heat and feed stock for the syngas.
The problem with electric cars is the technology is not being so widely developed beyond a lithium based technology that it will run out of lithium should be required to replace millions of cars each requiring X00's if not X000's of batteries. Bolivia is one of the major current known sources of lithium readily accessible. Rare earth metals utilised in increasing battery performance will also be in higher and higher demand. Mass production of things does not always make them cheaper if they are already in short supply.
Nuclear waste from your nuclear reactors. Energy efficiency (Transfer of far more energy than the current national grid handles orders of magnitude greater in fact!), cost of production (Where to store waste + how long + security + reactors costs), current global increase in demand for nuclear fuel and current nuclear fuel sources. If you look into these you will relise that the nuclear option looks nice at current consumption levels, but as most modern nations are also proposing to start utilising these resources the cost and availability will rapidly change and not in our favour.
Electric cars in my view are a stepping stone to hybrid electric - fuel cell vehicles. Soon you will find more and more home power fuel cells which efficiently convert mains gas to electricity + heat for your home.
Hydrogen can be photocatalytically generated with solar energy. No its not at comercial levels yet, but in 20 years or so it might be.
Hydrogen storage is possible in LPG style tanks within cars and could easily filled in the same fashion. This is not such an impossible task as we do regularly fill vehicles with flammable gases and liquids already on a large scale. They are installing Hydrogen refilling stations at petrol tanks along the M4 as a trial basis to encourage the technological take up and accessibility.
I never suggested liquid storage, but there is potential for metal hydride storage of hydrogen, or in combination of CO2 we could actually produce hydrogen photcatalytically from water, add in a source of CO2 (say a power plant exhaust gases) and then produce hydrocarbons of our choice. These can then be broken down on a pre-catalyst to the fuel cell (we already have fuel cells running off methanol which we could source from biomass) and now we have a liquid based fuel.
There are lots of alternatives and it should not be so easily dismissed.
Most hydrogen is burnt as part of the cracking/reforming of gas and oil production. They utilise it as a free source of heat and feed stock for the syngas.
The problem with electric cars is the technology is not being so widely developed beyond a lithium based technology that it will run out of lithium should be required to replace millions of cars each requiring X00's if not X000's of batteries. Bolivia is one of the major current known sources of lithium readily accessible. Rare earth metals utilised in increasing battery performance will also be in higher and higher demand. Mass production of things does not always make them cheaper if they are already in short supply.
Nuclear waste from your nuclear reactors. Energy efficiency (Transfer of far more energy than the current national grid handles orders of magnitude greater in fact!), cost of production (Where to store waste + how long + security + reactors costs), current global increase in demand for nuclear fuel and current nuclear fuel sources. If you look into these you will relise that the nuclear option looks nice at current consumption levels, but as most modern nations are also proposing to start utilising these resources the cost and availability will rapidly change and not in our favour.
Electric cars in my view are a stepping stone to hybrid electric - fuel cell vehicles. Soon you will find more and more home power fuel cells which efficiently convert mains gas to electricity + heat for your home.
Hydrogen can be photocatalytically generated with solar energy. No its not at comercial levels yet, but in 20 years or so it might be.
Hydrogen storage is possible in LPG style tanks within cars and could easily filled in the same fashion. This is not such an impossible task as we do regularly fill vehicles with flammable gases and liquids already on a large scale. They are installing Hydrogen refilling stations at petrol tanks along the M4 as a trial basis to encourage the technological take up and accessibility.
I never suggested liquid storage, but there is potential for metal hydride storage of hydrogen, or in combination of CO2 we could actually produce hydrogen photcatalytically from water, add in a source of CO2 (say a power plant exhaust gases) and then produce hydrocarbons of our choice. These can then be broken down on a pre-catalyst to the fuel cell (we already have fuel cells running off methanol which we could source from biomass) and now we have a liquid based fuel.
There are lots of alternatives and it should not be so easily dismissed.
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