10-18-2009, 05:03 AM
Ten years down the road is incredibly optimistic for having enough surplus solar to be able to pump it into a wasteful endeavor like creating hydrogen. I don't think anybody in the energy fields is even considering that. I am all for rapid deployment of solar, but even the fast track solar programs (i.e. China, Europe) are going very slowly relative to demand for renewables. We'd have to be very deeply into "solarization" before we'd start wasting all that expensive energy by using it to produce a low efficiency product like hydrogen. As I indicated before, the problem with hydrogen is that there isn't any.
As to why Toyota and Honda (and others) have been making fuel cell vehicles?...because they have received large government subsidies to experiment with it.
As to why Toyota and Honda (and others) have been making fuel cell vehicles?...because they have received large government subsidies to experiment with it.