Will hydrogen fuel revolutionise world?

Question

Will hydrogen fuel revolutionise world?

Answer 1

No. Even though hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe, it is almost always stuck to something else. (ex. Oxygen + Hydrogen = Water) It is seperating the hydrogen from the oxygen that requires more energy than will be released by combustion of the hydrogen. It can be done using a gallium-arsenide catalyst, but what do you do with the millions of tons of spent gallium arsenide?

Biofuels (bio-jet fuel, biodiesel, and bio-gasoline) derived from algaes will be the way of the future. Afterall, we need to power cargo vehicles (trucks, trains and airplanes) before we worry about consumers' gas tanks. Otherwise there will be nothing in place to be purchased by the consumer.

Answer 2

No. Hydrogen, although promising and helpful, will not be the sole fuel of the future. If we were to do so, then we would just replace the oil companies with the hydrogen companies. One group will have exclusive control over an entire market and we will be screwed (again). We will need to use a variety of fuels like biofuels (ethanol and biodiesel), hydrogen, electric and CNG so that we can put the free-market to work, stimulate competition and keep prices low.

Answer 3

It might.

We'll need a better way of creating it, Sulphur-Iodine cycle looks promising, as well as the distribution infrastructure and a whole heap of new cars.

Personally I'd just figure out a way to turn hydrogen and carbon (taken from CO2 from the air) into synthetic hydrocarbon fuels that our current vehicles and distribution system will work with (i.e. figure out a way to manufacture petrol, diesel and Jet A-1 (or maybe JP-5) using only water, CO2 and heat).

Electricity could also be the next transportation fuel and Boron has also been proposed.

Answer 4

I do believe it will, we are coming up with new more economical ways of extracting it from water. Hydrogen can be used one of three ways which not many other fuel sources can, first you can use it in an existing internal combustion engine, secondly you can use it in fuel cells and the third method is abit more far out future but in fusion after all it powers the sun. As far as hydrogen companies coming up with monopoly's I don't think that will happen since there is home run hydrogen production going on now, anyone with a source of water and electricity can make it.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

It might if given the opportunity, however I believe that we do need a better balance of options, with out basing all of our transportation hopes on a single form of energy.

Answer 7

Hydrogen can be produced efficiently. the nissan hydrogen fuel cell vehicle proves it. there are people supplementing there vehicles now all over the country. there are people who have been doing this for decades it is one of our saving graces along with wind and solar power. we have the technology and the brains to make it happen.