On Jun 11, 2008, at 3:32 PM, Corey Edwards wrote:
On Wed, 2008-06-11 at 13:53 -0600, Dennis Muhlestein wrote:
Back to the subject of $4.00/gas.
Why are we not using hydrogen yet?
It seems to be a common misconception that hydrogen is a fuel source
and
thus can replace gasoline. It's not. It's a fuel storage medium,
i.e. a
battery. Even if all the cars out on the roads were magically
converted
to running on hydrogen, we would still have to solve the problem of
generating enough electricity to produce hydrogen. Then of course
there's the fun problem of distributing it.
Hydrogen has a lot of things going for it, although I'm not completely
convinced yet, but don't think it's going to be a simple panacea.
Corey
I agree. Fully electric cars using so-called "supercapacitors" [1]
will be filling our streets in years to come.
Mark my words - if fuel prices hit $8.00/gallon, any car company that
can sell an electric car that is as convenient to drive (no lengthy
charge times, no batteries to replace, etc) as a gasoline powered one
will make billions.
Who wants to start up a supercapacitor manufacturing company with me?
-- Kimball
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercapacitor
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