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Environment & Energy

hunter

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5. Don't forget the energy to compress it.

Reply to Fumesucker (Reply #3)

Sun Jun 28, 2015, 07:55 PM

Jun 2015

I still don't "get" hydrogen as anything but a clumsy and unlikely means of preserving existing business models. It's just another pump at the gas station.

Maybe it's time for the automobile age itself to end -- just pay people to stay home and read a book or something.

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