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Old 01-16-2008, 12:56 AM   #18 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by SVOboy View Post
...These are some of the arguments that make looking into hydrogen important.
Using pre-refined hydrogen to feul a vehicle is 4x more inefficent than batteries and electricity. You would be using 20Giga watts of coal and desiel burning electric plants to produce 5Gigawatts of hydrogen fuel.

This is why big oil is actually helping the push toward hydrogen powered vehicles.

Charging stations would not be efficient. but this would be:
(warning, boring video, but still educational)
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/v/M0SB5psrVCM&rel=1[/YOUTUBE]

You would still have to get cars light enough and batteries powerful enough to make this system work.
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