Environment Friendly Hydrogen Vehicles Coming Soon

July 23rd, 2008 • Related • Filed Under
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Hydrogen vehicles are not “news” but the mass production of such transportation means is. The production costs of such vehicles are still very high and the development of fuel cell and hydrogen production are still challenging. While many companies are still producing fuel cell vehicles, the market is simply not ready to adopt them due to their high costs.

According to a communiqué by The National Academies, a report from the US National Research Council states that by the end of 2020 here will be around 2 million. By the end of 2023 the production costs of such vehicles could become competitive with conventional vehicles.

The report also reveals preliminary costs that would be needed to make the transition from conventional oil powered vehicles to hydrogen fuels. About $55 billion in government support will be needed at least till the end of 2023 and it is expected that the private industry would invest around $145 billion.

Hydrogen vehicles will drastically reduce oil dependence and carbon dioxide emissions. This means that the transition will bring a positive contribution to the environment. This contribution though is entirely dependent on how the hydrogen is produced. There are of course alternatives to hydrogen powered vehicles like biofuels and fuel-efficient conventional vehicles. All these together could reduce greenhouse gas emissions to less than 20% of current levels by 2050.

The study was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy.


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  1. Comment by Uncle B on 23 July 2008:

    Where will the hydrogen come from? If the U.S. had chosen to be a moral people, and leaving Iraqi oil alone, and following Al Gore, decided to develop the South Western deserts, with the technology of the times, solar/thermal-molten sodium - electricity installations, for the same amount of money as that war cost, today, we would be tapping into the largest, renewable, sustainable, energy source the world has ever known. It would have paid every energy bill in the U.S.A. for maintenance fees only - FOREVER! It would be an oil field that can NEVER run dry! Low cost electric power for all!
    After the millions of murders, and billions of dollars, borrowed from our children’s futures and pissed away, with thousands of our own and others maimed and disfigured for life, millions of families utterly destroyed, ours and theirs, we are no closer to Iraqi oil production than the Iraqis are!
    The next time you hear a blithering idiot spoiled brat, drunken, drug addicted, sociopathic, rich, daddie’s, Arabic saber dancing boy, stand at a microphone and threaten YOUR safety with someone ELSE’S weapons, remember what you lost America, remember, and weep!

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