Quote Originally Posted by shawnlee28
Do not get caught up in the effeciency of hydrogen,the purpose is to not pollute and use less oil.
Who cares if I have to put 150 gallons of water in it a day....or if 50 percent of energy generated goes back into re-generation............its water ...good cheap clean water.
Effeciency is a mute point when the fuel source is almost free and unlimited.......you can bet they will dole it out one gallon at a time{with a massive tax} ,not convert it on board like should be done.
Just keep in mind ,like i mentioned before ,there will be no one source as a replacement for gas ,it will be many different sources to replace the one.
Shawnlee
It unfortunately isn't just water producing hydrogen right now. You need an alternate energy source to split the water molecule, like electricity or natural gas. It takes twice the amount of natural gas to make half the amount of hydrogen. To put it simpler, inorder to convert water to 20 gallons of hydrogen fuel, it would take approximately 40 gallons of natural gas to supply the energy to convert water to hydrogen.
California was promoting Hydrogen powered cars, because they are clean burning as you know. The problem was where do you get the hydrogen from and how much does it cost. a friend of mine works for the california energy commision. She was furious over the hydrogen hype, because it doesn't use less energy, it uses twice as much. If you just used 20 gallons of natural gas to drive with, you'd save 20 gallons of natural gas to drive the same distance as you would with hydrogen. People are working on using solar photovoltaic cells to make hydrogen fuel sources, but it is not very efficient(i.e. it costs more to produce the hydrogen, than to use traditional fuel sources. As gas goes up, alternative fuels will be more competitive, but unless technology leaps foward, we are going to be paying higher prices at the pumps, and cars like the Volkswagen Rabbit will be very popular again!