I know there are vehicles like the Honda FCX which runs on hydrogen with a zero emission and not everyone can buy it? Well obviously the government doesn't want anyone to because they only care about themselves. Well if the government just doesn't want to why aren't anyone doing anything about it. I mean really? I don't even drive my car anymore I just take a bike to work. Why is everyone just letting the government make those decisions. It would really help everyone's life and imagine how much money we can save from not pumping gas. So why aren't anyone doing anything about that? And if i'm wrong then why aren't those vehicles on the market for anyone? Thanks!
Not practical yet. Is there ONE hydrogen refuel station yet? Is there anywhere near enough production yet? Has the cost per car dropped near practical yet? Will it withstand safety tests? No and No and No and No. It's not the government. It's the market. Which many practical sounding ideas have yet to bear fruit. Like the gas turbine experiments of the 60's. The steam engine developments of the 70's and 80's. Some ideas are too early and too costly to bring to market. Well, I'm STILL waiting on the Jetson Skycar.
Where do you suggest getting the hydrogen? ALL of it we can find is bound to other elements and we have to USE vast amounts of energy to separate it. Most of our power is from coal. Therefore your Honda FCX is essentially a COAL-fired car with A LOT of emissions, just coming from a power plant instead of its tailpipe. There are NO regulatory hurdles whatsoever against fuel cells.
The Source for Hydrogen is cracking it off from Petroleum base stocks. Sure, there are other sources, but they are not economically feasible. Hydrogen has low BTU potential relative to the volume that must be stored and used. It is difficult and dangerous to handle. That is just a start. I would love to see that recyclable non-polluting fuel made into something practical, but the essential technology does not yet exist.
because it is eco-friendly washing. Hydrogen is made by utilizing electrolysis (which makes use of electricity). real, no emissions if electricity is renewable (image voltaic, wind, etc.), yet electrolysis is way less efficient than in basic terms utilizing electric powered vehicles. it is not in basic terms petroleum greed, even though it is honestly helping. It makes a lot more effective experience to easily use electric powered vehicles, because we've the technologies, and there is honestly NO way that hydrogen will develop into more effective efficient than electric powered vehicles. era. Why? because hydrogen is only a way of storing the electricity, and we've already got strategies of storing electricity with a lot more effective performance. also hydrogen needs to be transported, it really is far more effective sturdy to shipping than electricity. therefore hydrogen is in basic terms an attempt of eco-friendly washing by utilizing authorities and petroleum businesses to make their image more effective. also hydrogen burns invisibly and needs to be saved less than extreme stress, so the vehicle in the front may blow up and kill the 5 hundred human beings in the section, yet there is not any longer any brilliant explosion, and the in elementary words flames seen may be the flaming homes and human beings round. the money we are pouring into hydrogen progression ought to bypass right into a lot more effective useful analyze, yet we do not make the decision so f*ck it. P.S. Sorry if I burst all people's theory bubble of what an excellent position the international is. even though it is the truth. Oh yeah, and we've already got the infrastructure for electric powered vehicles, while hydrogen. nope. And Matthew, the US imports organic gas from Canada ;)
Good question: Probably the same reason there isn't more vehicles that use natural gas. Not enough fueling souces so auto manufactors won't build them and not enough fueling sources because there isn't enough vehicles on the road. It could also be that the cost of producing hydrogen and transporting it may be higher at this time than other fuels. I think that hydrogen fuel cells will be the major source of energy for vehicles at some point in the future
