| We are fortunate enough to live in a country | | | | problem at the Department of Energy and many |
| where we can spend on Research and | | | | top energy scientists and automobile companies |
| Development. It is wonderful we have the 3 billion | | | | are working on these and other serious issues |
| dollars to spend on R and D for Hydrogen Fuel | | | | right now. |
| Cells. It is great that we have found some future | | | | What does all this mean? It means that jumping |
| problems early on so we can work on fixing | | | | to conclusion on any one idea is not smart, |
| them. The problem with hydrogen leaking is that it | | | | because if we went to Electric Cars with |
| will end up floating to the upper atmosphere | | | | batteries. Then we would have all kinds of waste |
| quicker due to it's light weight and therefore | | | | disposal problems far worse than the energy |
| offset the ozone layer. Some scientists estimated | | | | saved. Also making electricity from fossil fuels at |
| by up to 18% with in a time period equal to | | | | power plants would mean you would simply have |
| widespread useage in cars, transportation, powere | | | | re-displaced the pollution to somewhere else, GM |
| plants ships, etc. The problem is as the Hydrogen | | | | announced a complete dumping of it's project |
| goes up into the stratosphere it would condense | | | | recently after the California Air Resources Board |
| and oxidize that means you would have water. | | | | figured out that the 10% electric quota of cars |
| Thus the lower atmosphere would infact cool. | | | | was a pipe dream. Although they should be |
| Currently some scientists estimate the change in | | | | commended on their forward thinking and |
| ozone to be 8% which they have said is why we | | | | attempt as many Futurists concur. |
| have holes at the poles. We had thought that | | | | In 1890 Electric cars were created. And it took |
| they were closing up and this was perhaps a | | | | until 1998 to figure out what to do with them, |
| trend or cycle. All this means a disturbance in the | | | | now Tesla would have prefered the battery |
| ozone chemistry which is not good. We know | | | | operated automobile as he stated at the World's |
| what the effects of such are as we have already | | | | Faire at the turn of the century. Of course the |
| seen in Tierra Del fuego, with Blind sheep and | | | | reality of what to do with all the dead and old |
| cancer rate increases to alraming numbers. But | | | | corroded batteries is a serious issue, right now |
| we also know from aviation studies of skin cancer | | | | they do not even know what to do with all the |
| in pilots. You may search this topic on this baord | | | | ion-litium bateries being disposed of that do not fit |
| for a cross industry study we did. | | | | the newer cellular phones because they are too |
| Leakage from Fuel Cell tanks or unused fuel is a | | | | big. Nickle Metal Hydride also issues. Disposal, |
| significant problem which should be addressed | | | | remember we trash 10 million cars per year in |
| after all we can control Feon to a large degree, | | | | this country at the current rate. Selling 17 million |
| but with so much Hydrogen running everything it | | | | and a net gain of 7 million cars which will all be |
| could be a problem, Hydrogen is found | | | | disposed of in the future too. Used cars are piling |
| everywhere and in many compounds where it is | | | | up across America and not just the old rusty |
| trapped and as those molecules or compounds | | | | one's which number 5 per household in the |
| decay Hydrogen is released naturally anyway. We | | | | Southern States. |
| may have a chance to control it and certainly we | | | | So you ask what is the answer to all of this? Well |
| are looking into this. Another issue is of course | | | | right now the answer is in the 3 billion dollars of |
| already discussed, the heat conversion process | | | | research granted by Congress and brought to the |
| and high temperatures which could cause intense | | | | table by the President in the State of the Union |
| fog banks as you drive in early mornings or urban | | | | Speech. Is you car in to the next centurygoing to |
| heat from millions of cars in Metropolitan areas.. | | | | hover and emit no pollution? Could be, but |
| We are hoping that the researchers can infact | | | | seriously we have a ways to go yet. The |
| can over come these obsticles and that we can | | | | hydrogen future looks like a bright one, but there |
| prove that a widespread Hydrogen Economy can | | | | are bugs to work through first. |
| in fact be possible. They are aware of the | | | | |