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Old 02-04-2010, 04:09 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by rgathright View Post
The whole Hydrogen obsession reminds me of marketing in the movie "Idiocracy".
"It's got electrolytes"!
Hydrogen reintegration is actually a fairly efficient way of storing/making electrical energy, as far as I know.

As energy storage, it contains more energy per unit area than any battery currently in existence (except nanobatteries made from carbon nanotubes), isn't expensive to implement (unlike nanobatteries made from carbon nanotubes), and if clean energy is used to make it, it's clean, whether it's used as a combustion fuel or a reintegration fuel (fuel cells).

Hard to say for just about any other fuel, eh?
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