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Originally Posted by MattyC
I'm not sure I'm understanding youre post. Are you asking where we plan to get hydrogen from?
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Not asking. We know where we can get it from. You have to make it. You either run electricity through water (and you have to make the electricity too) or you reform hydrocarbons (kicks CO2 into the atmosphere and you still need to produce the damn hydrocarbons people complain about in the first place). There's other methods too, but they all have one common theme...you have to spend a tonnnnnnnne of resources to produce a small amount of hydrogen.
Then there's the fact that no distribution network currently exists. Think of all the gas stations, pipelines, fuel trucks, etc. there are in the world. Then think of how much money that would cost to create an equivalent hydrogen distribution network. Many zeros.
So basically, we have to make it and we have no way of getting it to the consumer. It's great that it only makes water when you burn it, but it is very very far from practical.