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NYC_SKP

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1. Hayes is not a scientist and he's talking out his ass. And your "Hydrogen Cycle" graphic is a joke.

Reply to nationalize the fed (Original post)

Wed Apr 22, 2015, 03:42 PM

Apr 2015

He founded Earth Day, woo hoo, but his undergrad degree is in Government, not science.

Hydrogen can be made from the sun, fine. But 95% of it is made from natural gas and Big Oil and Gas LOVE that.

Also, while my Chevy Volt charges up for pennies at home or work....

Guess what your H2 car will be REQUIRED TO DO--- Go to Hydrogen stations to fill up. And you will have to pay whatever the market will bear and that won't be cheap.

Hydrogen claptrap, I see it every day.

Your graphic leaves out energy losses, the the energy needed to pressurize the H2 and transport it where needed and scrub the air entering the fuel cell.

In short, it is an old POS graphic with little value.

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Earth Day (Today!) organizer Denis Hayes touts hydrogen fuel cells. [View all] nationalize the fed Apr 2015 OP

Hayes is not a scientist and he's talking out his ass. And your "Hydrogen Cycle" graphic is a joke. NYC_SKP Apr 2015 #1

"Why a hydrogen economy doesn't make sense" mackdaddy Apr 2015 #2