Comment Pile-o-crapola! (Score 1) 202
Hydrogen is an energy transport medium, NOT a fuel. Get this straight- using hydrogen only moves the location of the "prime mover," it does NOT offer any energy savings. In fact, it actually is LESS efficient, due to conversion losses.
From where does the hydrogen come? Electrolysis of water.
From where does the electricity come?
This is just so much pandering to the Liberal Green Tree Huggers!
I invite all to do a simple excercise: Look up the annual demand for gasoline in the USA, multiply by 85%, and find the total amount of ethanol needed for E-85, if it were to meet demand.
NOW- look up the ethanol yield per acre of corn, and calculate the acreage needed to meet this demand.
Since I have a slight fondness for eating dinner, I cannot see converting 90% of ALL arable land in the USA to ethanol production, just to make motor fuels!!! And this does not consider the additional acreage of soybeans needed to supply the demand for biodiesel!
ALL this hybrid/hydrogen/biodiesel/ethanol hype is pure marketing and politics! IT DOES NOT COMPUTE, except for huge agrobusinesses like ADM!
But it damn sure makes good ad copy, and makes Liberals feel good!
At least until they starve.
Looky here- If you so despise burning fossil fuels, THEN WALK! Using the arable land to produce fuel for humans is far more economical and enviromentally sane than making any of these fuels de jour.
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From where does the hydrogen come? Electrolysis of water.
From where does the electricity come?
This is just so much pandering to the Liberal Green Tree Huggers!
I invite all to do a simple excercise: Look up the annual demand for gasoline in the USA, multiply by 85%, and find the total amount of ethanol needed for E-85, if it were to meet demand.
NOW- look up the ethanol yield per acre of corn, and calculate the acreage needed to meet this demand.
Since I have a slight fondness for eating dinner, I cannot see converting 90% of ALL arable land in the USA to ethanol production, just to make motor fuels!!! And this does not consider the additional acreage of soybeans needed to supply the demand for biodiesel!
ALL this hybrid/hydrogen/biodiesel/ethanol hype is pure marketing and politics! IT DOES NOT COMPUTE, except for huge agrobusinesses like ADM!
But it damn sure makes good ad copy, and makes Liberals feel good!
At least until they starve.
Looky here- If you so despise burning fossil fuels, THEN WALK! Using the arable land to produce fuel for humans is far more economical and enviromentally sane than making any of these fuels de jour.
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