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Old 12-03-2016, 06:28 PM   #72 (permalink)
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The only way the hydrogen economy will emerge is if everything else gets used up and nothing better is found.
As far as we can tell the hydrogen economy would be very bad for a lot of people. The cost of hydrogen and anything that uses hydrogen for fuel is going to be so expensive it will be out of reach for most people.
You sure as heck are not going to be able to afford to heat your home with hydrogen unless you are rich.

There are hardly any natural gas fuel stations where natural gas is readily available. So why would hydrogen fuel stations pop up where natural gas would be easier?

Plus existing diesels can be modified to use diesel and natural gas and it appears to have limited success.

Why are people going to buy multi 100,000 dollar rigs that can't go everywhere?
Then are they going to spend millions of dollars building and maintaining fuel stations that will see little to no use for many years?

No part of this makes sense.
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