Bush will make your hydrogen car a polluter!!!?

Question

Don't let Bush and Cheney allow the oil companies to botch hydrogen powered vehicles. They are taking a pollution free technology and tying it to the oil companies to preserve their petro profits.

Only buy a hydrogen vehicle that produces it's own hydrogen with it's own garage hydrogen plant that uses solar collectors on your garage roof to turn sunshine into hydrogen fuel virtually free!

Only vote for the Pres candidate who will promote pollution free technology and not coddle the petro pirates!

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Answer 1

Where do you think the hydrogen is going to come from?  Water?  Water is a scarce resource, more so than oil, and oil has more hydrogen than water.  

Hydrogen is going to make the profits the oil corporations make today look puny in comparison.

Hydrogen is a poor, poor alternitive energy source.

Answer 2

Wow. Liberal hate for GWB is literally without bounds. He CAN'T change current technologies to make his 'rich buddies' richer. H2 IS MADE using natural gas. Sorry if you didn't know that before.

In any case, HHO is nonsense. I suggest you put some research into zero point energy first. Or start making your own ethanol and sidestep Big Oil entirely. But let go of your hate. You're not hurting anyone but yourself.

Answer 3

LOL!

Answer 4

"Only buy a hydrogen vehicle that produces it's own hydrogen with it's own garage hydrogen plant that uses solar collectors on your garage roof to turn sunshine into hydrogen fuel virtually free!"

Well, that would be nice if they existed outside of the imaginations of political activists.  But those of us who actually have to do the work--you know, the ones who learned to be engineers and make things--cannot fulfill your fantasies right now.  

That's because there's no solar panel that'll fit on your garage that'll power an automobile much further than to the end of the block.  This solar/hydrogen system is even less practical than most of the proposed schemes because you not only must produce energy to dissociate water (which wastes a lot of energy, and the electrodes are platinum) but then you've gotta compress the hydrogen into a tank of some sort, which takes a lot of energy as well.  

It doesn't matter much.  Hydrogen propulsion is a bad deal for any number of reasons.  Electrolysis isn't nearly as practical as it might seem to be, and we don't yet have the technology to build large electrolysis plants.  We get our present supplies of hydrogen by heating up natural gas until the carbon falls out in the form of a black powder called carbon black.  (It's what they use to make your tires black.)

Instead of railing about weird alternate supplies, how about concentrating on making mass transit acceptable?  Makes vastly more sense than cars.

Answer 5

Consider the fact that if there were enough wind farms, solar farms, and dams to produce the electricity that will convert water into hydrogen, your plan might work. However, you'd have nothing to run it in since the production of an auto or other means of transportation relies heavily on petroleum. There would be no tires, fabrics, or plastics.

On to your second point, who would be better equipped to develop these sources of energy? The oil companies have been trying to find reliable alternate sources for quite a few years. They are responsible to their share-holders which means they need to stay in business. Whether that business is the exploration, refining, and sale of petroleum is immaterial. They are in the energy business, no matter what that energy is.

Answer 6

I am not surprised.

Bush is a total fatal collision with reality, common sense, science, and our nation's security and energy future.

I call him our "warmest President on a global scale."