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By Qapa on 10/25/2010 5:03:23 PM , Rating: 2
"While cleaner energy through a hydrogen-based energy economy is the ideal future of energy"

What the hell?!

Not sure if this is in the original or just made up by the author of this post/news here, but this is simply false and ridiculous!

Hydrogen is only ideal for the companies that have money invested in it!!

Electricity is the one that is ideal, and the it can be produced by a multitude of different, ever increasing percentage of renewable energy sources - solar, wind, etc.

Going from gas, oil, to hydrogen would be absolutely ridiculous, in terms of effort and money spend creating a whole new distribution infrastructure, which then needs to have people to keep distributing it (trucks of it).

Going to electricity, you can get the electricity in whatever fashion is most appropriate for a given place, and then just distribute it around.

And for those that say: "Oh but in the US the grid can handle more power". You'd need to upgrade it anyway, so just start planning that today!! You'll save money in the long run!! Not to mention that it is not necessarily a problem in other countries!!

