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On Nov 12, 10:34 pm, notbob wrote:

On 2010-11-13, wrote:

reasonable source. Most comes from natural gas.

?????

Hydrogen comes from a simple electrical process. Anyone with a solar
panel or wind turbine can produce it. Slowly, but indefinitely, from
renewable energy sources. Why do you think this is not technology no
one is pursuing? DUH!

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I suppose you also believe that the oil companies, in a vast
conspiracy, bought up the mythical carburetor that we've heard about
for decades that got 100MPG. Let's do a bit of critical thinking.
We have car manufacturers worldwide in dire straights. GM and
Chrysler went bankrupt. Yet, we have this miracle hydrogen solution
and not one of them in the entire world is commercializing a great
solution that would not only keep them in business, but make them
billions. I can think of two reasons for that:

1 - Some vast conspiracy against hydrogen cars.

2 - Hydrogen isn't nearly as practical and cheap a solution as you
believe it to be.

As for anyone with a solar panel or wind turbine being able to produce
it, that's true. Now tell us how you produce enough of it, how many
solar panels are required, how you get it into a form that can be
stored safely in a car to give a reasonable driving range, etc. List
all the equipment required, it's cost, and show us that hydrogen is a
viable solution.

If all this is so readily doable, why don't YOU start the company to
do it and you'll be the next Bill Gates.

GM spenty boatloads of money before giving up on hydrogen for now and
building the chevy volt.

Few would of been willing to spend a $100,000 for a car with limited
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I'm waiting to see what happens with the Volt. While not costing
$100K, it still seems mighty dubious to me. It costs $40K+ and has an
electric range of about 100 miles. After that, the small gas
generator kicks in. Even with the FED tax credit of $12K, which comes
out of the taxpayers pocket, you're still paying $28K for it. And
it's in a compact car that has parts and similar size features to cars
costing $17K. Combine that with very limited recharge locations and
that to recharge any electric car in your garage in a reasonable time
requires a 240V, 50A+ circuit, it doesn't sound very practical to
me. Anyone here want to buy one?

I heard that in California, the state and local govts are also subsidizing
the volt, so the car winds up costing those environmentally concerned a mere
$17K, which is about what your garden variety gasoline go cart costs. and I
thought California was broke already