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JavaJones:
Hydrogen *can* work in an internal combustion engine, absolutely. I never said it didn't. I said it's not a "drop-in replacement". Which it isn't.

But ok from your last message it sounds like we're on the same page: electric is the way of the future. You're advocating hydrogen as essentially a storage/transport medium for electric "fuel", yes? That focuses the discussion a lot more! Now whether hydrogen fuel cells are so much more efficient than upcoming battery tech improvements is another question. Currently fuel cell tech is too expensive and underdeveloped to be used in mass production for public vehicles. So it's really a race, will other battery tech get light and long-lasting enough *and* cheap enough to beat hydrogen fuel cells by the time *they* are market ready? Dunno. But the added drawback of having to *generate* that hydrogen means that any battery tech has a head-start due to the energy loss of hydrogen production, if you consider the sum total energy consumption of the system ("Well to pump, as they say"). And of course you *should* consider sum total energy consumption, otherwise moving to new fuels/energy sources is potentially pointless, or even detrimental (see ethanol).

- Oshyan

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