re: #357 Pianobuff

You may have missed my earlier question. Do you see much of a future for the compressed gas vehicles?

Ohhh sorry I did miss it… If you mean full scale hydrogen power, no I do not really see that working except in special circumstances. In a place like iceland that has a tone of readily available geothermal power and a small population it may be practical.

However, splitting water takes a huge amount of power. You would have to have very large energy intensive hydrogen plants to do it. For our grid and population the numbers don’t work out IMHO.

To power those plants, you would need to switch to something like nuclear anyway. At that point, why not just have an electric vehicle?

The torque on them is monstrous, you get awesome performance and you aren’t carrying around a large tank of explosive gas.

In that special I linked to is a pure electric roadster that looks like a car from Star Wars, goes 0-60 in 4 secs and has a range of 250 miles. It is available today, but expensive @90K. As batteries get better and cheaper and the new batteries from ANL are developed, (these new batteries exist and have triple the energy density as ones in current production) such cars will only get cheaper and perform even better.