Biden's hydrogen bombshell leaves Europe in the dust

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101. I don't.

Aside from my belief that automobile culture ought to be dismantled by turning our cities into attractive affordable places where car ownership is unnecessary, I believe plug-in hybrids are a much better bet. Such cars already exist.

Most car trips are short. For these short trips plug-in hybrids run entirely on electricity from the grid. For longer trips such cars could be powered with carbon-neutral synthetic fuels that are easily handled within the existing transportation infrastructure.

Hydrogen is a wretched fuel. Aside from the basic insurmountable thermodynamic inefficiencies, hydrogen is very difficult to handle and contain.

Methane is a much easier fuel to contain than hydrogen yet in practice huge amounts are lost to leakage.

I've got to ask, in a world where people have trouble containing the motor oil in their vehicles, how much worse would hydrogen leaks be?

It's not a problem of putting "all our eggs in one basket," rather it's that most of the eggs in the basket are rotten and will only prolong our dependence on fossil fuels.