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H2 from Natural Gas
By Chris at CaFCPw7876 on 1/5/2010 1:48:14 PM , Rating: 2
Hydrogen has been made from steam reforming of natural gas for 60 years. Most H2 produced goes into gasoline, making gasoline cleaner. H2 is also used in manufacturing silicon chips, making pharmaceuticals, processing food and as a whitener in consumer products like toothpaste and laundry detergent. It is a safe, reliable and cost effective way to make the equivalent of 56 billion gallons of gasoline a year, enough to fill 200 million vehicles a day.

According to the report (and many other reports) making H2 from natural gas and using it in a fuel cell vehicle has slightly fewer GHG emissions than using electricity from natural gas in a battery vehicle. When producing H2 from grid electricity from a coal-fired power plant is dirtier than a gasoline car, which is exactly why no company produces hydrogen this way. Academic reports cover all the possibilities, even those that people or businesses would never do.

Biofuels, hydrogen and batteries are all three important to end gasoline use.

Chris White
California Fuel Cell Partnership

RE: H2 from Natural Gas
By Penti on 1/6/2010 2:43:34 PM , Rating: 2
And will possibly carbon monoxide poison the fuel cells. You might just as well use SOFC fuel cells run on diesel. It's not that easy to produce H2 for vehicles. I don't see the point of producing hydrogen with energy we don't have. Besides there's not enough natural gas around.

