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Originally posted by stevepaa
A significant way to recue our dependence is to go to hydrogen, but we need to spend some money now to reap the rewards later.
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Nearly all commercial hydrogen today is made from petroleum. You strip the hydrogen off of the carbon chains. Guess what you end up with from the process? CO, CO2, various nitrogen compounds--basically the same thing that comes out of a cars exhaust pipe. You really end up with no net reduction in emmissions.
Further, you have to store hydrogen in a presurized and sealed container. Don't forget the H2 + 02 is also used as rocket fuel. The kinds of accidents that can happen are much worse with hydrogen than gasoline.