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Originally Posted by Flieger
Why go through all the trouble to develop a gasoline fuel cell when that is a non-renewable resource that is only going to get harder to extract and pricier to buy? Doesn't make business sense. You would need to use a renewable liquid fuel like methanol. Or hydrogen made from natural gas power, solar, wind, geothermal, nuclear, etc.
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yup
of course, you don't have to crack crude down to get gasoline; if costs rise for crude (a lot) you could synthesize it up from methane - get some nice isooctane or whatever
but, H seems easier to reform now than was thought a couple of years ago; we can get ethanol from plants; get CH4 from fracking, etc.
BTW - I hear the US has surpassed Russia in NG production (!)