How does the public feel about hydrogen fuel cells?

Question

How does the public feel about hydrogen fuel cells?

Answer 1

If I had a source of power, i.e., a nearby waterfall, from which to generate some electricity I would like to have a H2 fuel cell car.  

If one must _purchase_ H2, then the pollution remains since most if not all commercial hydrogen is cracked from natural gas (a fossil fuel).  Electrolysis of water on a commercial scale is A. polluting, B. very expensive, & C. requires more energy input than that which can be recovered from the evolved hydrogen.

All in all, it's a lose lose situation with a lot of smoke and mirrors to delude the uninformed and unwary.

ref the G.M. commercial bragging about putting hydrogen fuel cell vehicles in some (here unnamed) large cities then saying, "you can't buy one, but you can applaud"..

yeah..right

Answer 2

Hydrogen is a now win situation.  It ain't going to happen.

Answer 3

I think the "general public" hardly knows anything about them at all.

Answer 4

I think the public wonders why we don't have more of them. That is because the public has no idea how fuel cells are made but thinks that "they" should know how to make them in quantity for a low price. And the public has no idea where the hydrogen fuel would come from but believes that "they" do. The public is wrong.

Answer 5

Hydrogen is a very dangerous fuel if u don't think so check with NASA . It is the most explosive and the atoms are so small they will leak through anything.

Answer 6

I'm only one person of the general public, but I like them if the hydrogen is produced efficiently.

Jello, why don't you think they'll happen? Once the infrastructure is in place I think people will begin to switch.

Answer 7

Great, but try to find some,

its  a  government  joke to ease the peoples worries over high gas prices, The car manufactures  have stock in the oil company's,  do you really think there going to come out with a vech that gives good MPG

I had a 1948 Chev that got the same mileage that the new ones get, and a 1980 Dotson that got 49 mpg, does that  tell you any thing?

Answer 8

Electric cars seem like the better option in the long run. I just don't see the benefit of fuel cells, outside of areas where electricity prices are very high.  

Producing hydrogen causes greenhouse gas emissions.  We're just shifting the emissions from the car exhaust to the hydrogen producing plant.  I don't see much of a benefit.