[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by arsenal

You don't think expanding the electrical infrastructure would be a huge deal? It would require a lot more generation, than what is currently available at least in alberta. Where are you going to get the extra electric generation from?


Electricity is also an energy carrier, not a source.

The base of electrical infrastructure is already in place expanding that capacity would be much simpler than building an new hydrongen infrastructure from scratch.

My point about hydrogen being a Carrier and not a source is that too may people assume that hydrogen is going to be so much better for the environment than fossil fuels. But where do we get the hydrgen from? It's got to be produced from something, be it from hydrocarbons or from water, but either way we are using fuels and emmiting carbon to do this and all we are doing is adding additional steps and inefficiencies to the process. Using a battery is the same concept, but instead of using electricty to produce hydrogen and then transporting that hydrogen to the car you use that electricty to charge a battery directly in the car without having to physically transport any fuel. You tell me which is more efficient?

Yes we could build green methods of producing that hydrogen such as nuclear, but that adds a whole other level of complexity to the infrastructure that we've got to build.