As we should all know by now, using Hydrogen as a fuel for transportation has more than a few hoops to jump through before it can be considered viable, but every day some one gets another little piece of puzzle figured out.
GE says its new machine could make the hydrogen economy affordable, by slashing the cost of water-splitting technology.
Couple stuff like this with recent advances in battery technology and we may be able to start shedding this 3.4 kabilloin ton energy monkey that's hanging off our backs.
There is still a lot of work ahead for any of this to become practical, but we seem to be getting better at it every week. All we need to do now, is make a commitment as a nation to energy independence . This is the country that put human beings on the moon (in less then 10 years) 35 years ago with (relative) stone spears and bailing twine .
If we attack our present energy situation with the same sense of national pride, innovation and urgency as our parents generation did with respect to the moon, we could do this in short order, not 15 or 20 years, but 5 or 10.
All it takes is a National Will to make it so.
A. Weasel
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