Is it a bad thing that they're thinking about using basic survival resources to fuel cars?

Question

Corn, water, hydrogen. Shouldn't they be looking at developing a way to harness and store large amounts of solar power.

Answer 1

yes, corn is an unequivocal mess as a transportation fuel feedstock.

alas, in one way or another, all the energy comes from the sun, including petroleum, so it would be helpful to define what you mean by "solar power".

storage is the perennial problem.

Answer 2

Yes and they are taking the food off of dinner plates to boot

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And there is enough natural gas in the North Alaska region to replace the need for Gasoline as an automobile power source

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The evening network news this Monday had the owner of the biggest North Alaska oil company the one that has the Alaskan Pipe line

He told of all the natural gas reserves there in excess of more than all the oil in OPEC's back yard

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An no one in the government want to take hold of using natural gas as a gasoline replacement fuel to run automobiles

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Answer 3

Nothing wrong with using hydrogen.   It either will come from water and will turn back into water after use, or it will come from natural gas (most likely) in which case it will be twice as efficient as burning the natural gas directly if the hydrogen is used in a fuel cell.

I question the above answer because no company has (owns?) the Alaska pipeline; it was built with your tax dollars and is still public property.   I worked with transporting liquid natural gas for 5 years and never had any problems with it, but no one wants an import terminal anywhere near them; its not just the environmental wackos, but anyone.