Monday, March 3, 2014

The Hydrogen Car Is Back—Again

Popular Mechanics , Instapundit

comment:

A pretty negative review of hydrogen fuel cell cars.  These people are not very informed.  That may surprise some folks for me to say this.  But I've researched this deeper than these guys have.

In my opinion, the best system would include using nuclear power to synthesize ammonia and distribute it that way.  At the point of sale, crack the ammonia, and then cryogenically store the hydrogen for sale to customers.

Infrastructure needed?  Nothing much for the ammonia, since that already exists.  You need nuke plants, and the best ones are molten salt reactors.  Those can replace the conventional plants if anyone ever thinks of it.  Thus, you wouldn't even need  new nuke sites.  The last part is the fueling stations themselves.  Those aren't going to be as expensive as the PM article states.  The PM article didn't even mention these alternatives.

No comments: