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If they got the hydrogen strictly from water by using solar/wind energy, I would feel slightly better about FCVs.
Unfortunately, the majority if not all of the fuel cell stations generate hydrogen from natural gas.
If they got the hydrogen strictly from water by using solar/wind energy, I would feel slightly better about FCVs. [...]
Mainly because historically OEMs have used H2 as a way to postpone/delay ZEV regulation.I don't understand the distrust of h2 power.
Maybe eventually there will be an efficient way to split water directly into o and h. maybe there will be a good way to store it in a car, maybe they will figure out a safety feature where it wont be invisible if it catches on fire (really).
Maybe, maybe, maybe. The thing is, these "maybes" all require fundamental breakthroughs in chemistry and/or engineering. There's no guarantee such a breakthrough is even possible. Now if there was one problem like this I'd say there's a chance. But it's not just one, or two, or three things that need fundamental science breakthroughs in order to make these things truly practical. It's not realistic.
There will be a niche for hydrogen power, but passenger vehicles will not be it.
Remember the huge investment in fusion power? The early promises indicated working reactors by 2000. This is the same thing, and in the end will result in the same failure. Fusion, powered by heavy water, was going to save the world. A multibillion dollar investment worldwide in tokomaks, lasers, and all other manner of technologies to make it work, including the fraud of cold fusion, amounted to nothing. It was and remains an insurmountable technical problem.
Remember the huge investment in fusion power? The early promises indicated working reactors by 2000. This is the same thing, and in the end will result in the same failure. Fusion, powered by heavy water, was going to save the world. A multibillion dollar investment worldwide in tokomaks, lasers, and all other manner of technologies to make it work, including the fraud of cold fusion, amounted to nothing. It was and remains an insurmountable challenge of science.
H2 cars are the same story. And worse yet, it seems a last ditch attempt to prevent the inevitable and well deserved death of the fossil fuel industry.
We'll see soon enough.
Your comment sounds a little like what most said about attractive, roomy, long-range EVs until recently. Everything is impossible until some does it, then it's suddenly possible.