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Hydrogen Power Update
It looks like hydrogen power in definitely the wave of the future. National Geographic has a cool article about this fuel cell motorcycle -- looks like something from Batman. What about infrastructure? Don't we have a long way to go? There's another article that addresses that issue.
RedNova is running the following story:
WASHINGTON -- A public-private effort to develop more fuel-efficient automobiles and eventually introduce hydrogen as a transportation fuel is well-planned and identifies all major hurdles the program will face, says a new report from the National Academies' National Research Council. Many technical barriers must be overcome and new inventions will be needed, but the program, which was launched three years ago, has already made an excellent start, said the committee that wrote the report.
A start-up company in New York City claims to have a better way to extract hydrogen from water, which is a great advancement if it can be commercialized.
With electronics devouring more and more energy, even cell phones and computers are starting to use fuel cells.
This is even more exciting than the woodpecker song! I was discussing hydrogen and nuclear power with someone yesterday. It seems that nuclear is gaining momentum for the near future (for electricity, not transportation!), despite the problem of waste. So is hydrogen a panacea, or will it have unforeseen side effects or waste? Will billions of hydrogen powered vehicles in use around the world make the planet too wet?