Amory B. Lovins, CEO Rocky Mountain Institute: Twenty Hydrogen Myths

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1. He can't be serious about myth #3

Unless Lovins can figure out how to violate the laws of thermodynamics -- note: he cannot -- creating hydrogen will always take more energy than is generated by using it. Myth #3 is a fact, not a myth. So Lovins is just plain wrong about this item. I would agree with him, however, that that does not make it prohibitively expensive to generate since one can use renewable green sources to generate it.

But a hydrogen energy economy is still a damned good idea when combined with renewable sources. It could provide a helluva good storage medium for solar, wind, or other intermittent power generation schemes.