am I realllly that dumb

“ Honda has begun the first commercial production of a zero-emission, hydrogen fuel-cell powered vehicle.

Critics also point out that hydrogen is costly to produce and the most common way to produce hydrogen is still from fossil fuels.
Analysis of the environmental impact of different fuel technologies has shown that the overall carbon dioxide emissions from hydrogen powered cars can be higher than that from petrol or diesel-powered vehicles. ”

Don’t people still take physics at school ? ? It takes as much power to break water into the two components as you get back from recombining them. We had a first hand experience in our lab of the force of exploding hydrogen in a Kipps generator; the stuff is Very Volatile !
Come, Come. Here, Here ! I do not drive a propane vehicle. It is not nice to see propane explode. Even the army uses diesel, ‘cause even gas is to flammable. Zeppelins all crashed and burned long loooong ago.

Say again where the big advantage is in hydrogen power ? ?

Ditto for hybrid power. How can it be more economical ? ? So you run a gas motor or better yet a diesel one attached to a generator … economy personified ? ? ? Running Electric can not be more economical ‘cause electric is not as efficient and it takes energy to produce the electric just as it does to produce hydrogen. Nuke it. Sure sure. And have all that radio active waste around for years and years and years and years and years ? ? And not to mention all the expense of keeping it and making sure that it is not leaking out into Our environment? ?

If we are serious about saving oil hows about stopping the production of plastic ??

By the by this quote says “Since 1970, plastic has been responsible for doubling automobile fuel economy” and once again seriously. The internal combustion motor is not more economical than it was the first day it was invented. True there have been improvements in the system of delivery to the combustion chamber. But mostly it has been a reduction of size and weight of the vehicle that has given us the “better” mileage. Mostly. Which is more environmentally friendly, a horse, a metal vehicle or a plastic one? Like the online question, which is better plastic or paper grocery bag?

When I was looking into solar heating I dixcovered that it is quite simple and relatively easy to get up to eighty percent efficient. The next ten percent is more costly and the last ten is exponentially even more so. Do we Have to have all the extras on our cars ? Sure it is just a radio, but is the circuit board good for us. Finger nail polish can not be carried around in bulk, it is “dangerous goods” – so, is a truck full of drugstore fingernail polish safer than a truck load of bulk polish? Computers Are nice but the electronic board is not so nice in a garbage dump.

We know for a fact that electric transmission lines are safe. We know for a fact that cell phones do not cause cancer. Or other brain malfunctions.

WE DO.

We really do !