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Hydrogen as an Alternative Fuel
Posted Jan 26th, 2008 1:54PM by Mike 
So I’ve been mulling it over recently about all the buzz surrounding Hydrogen as a viable alternative fuel. Many say that Hydrogen won’t make it because there is no infrastructure to support it. I honestly believe that a government sponsored intiative to solve this problem would be that hard. To devote some serious federal minds and money towards this “global energy crisis”. Its amazing how much money the government wastes on things such as the steriod scandal in major league baseball or giving $10 billion back to tax payers in the form of tax refund checks. Now don’t get me wrong, I’ll take my check but honestly do they believe that it will affect a slowing economy?
Hydrogen is the most abundent element in the universe, so why would we not develop a system of integrating it into our lives? Australia has had great success with solar hydrogen production. The use special tiles made of Titanium Oxide that has the ability to spit apart the water atom into oxygen and hydrogen simply by harvesting sun light:
It would be the cheapest, cleanest and most abundant energy source ever developed: the main by-products would be oxygen and water. Rooftop panels placed on 1.6 million houses, for example, could supply Australia’s entire energy needs.
This coming from the University of New South Wales in August of 2004. Click here to read the rest of the article. This of course would spell bad news for the auto industry in its current state. The laughable goals set by our government of 35 mpg for passenger cars and light truck fleets by 2019 are absurd. 2019?! Even with the current set of technology 35 mpg should be easy no less by 2019. Why doesn’t the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee try setting some goals that actually mean something.
The money and the man power are there to implement some real change. Its just a question of when will something actually happen. The opportunity is there for hydrogen as a very real energy source, but it will take steps by our government to actually instigate any real revolution.
