Germany's first hydrogen filling station on the autobahn opens

[Gregorian]

15. Sorry, I spaced on that reply. My brain was somewhere else.

I know consumers play a big role in product design, but the planet doesn't care about how long it takes to fill a tank. Or how many miles per charge or refill.

The big bottom line for me is the infrastructure, or lack thereof. The rest is moot. What are we going to do, build a national hydrogen grid? Truck zillions of tankers with the stuff? Come on, that's just stupid. We have a grid. And now we have smaller grids.

I'll admit that there's a time factor constraint for this change in how we convert energy. But I'm basing my arguments on the time that seems reasonable for battery technology to reach levels that will be acceptable to users. I think primarily it already is, based on typical user behavior, in cars at least. Price has kept that one away. And this includes the barriers that have precluded faster battery development. You don't see Congress pushing that stuff through like the XL pipeline. It's a kind of anti-subsidy.

Too many negatives on the hydrogen side.