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      07-12-2013, 01:52 PM   #13
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Excellent review. Electric cars are just silly. Hydrogen fuel cells FTW. Where are those?
Hydrogen production issues aside, the principle issue with hydrogen, and why it may never be a viable reality is distribution. It took many decades and heavy government subsidization to build out our network of gasoline distribution (gas stations). Same goes for our power grid.

To create a viable network of hydrogen distribution would take decades and a tremendous amount of money/investment. Who would make such an investment without a market for it? Likewise, who is going to bring hydrogen cars to market in mass, without a hydrogen distribution network that can make that market segment sustainable? It’s a chicken or the egg dilemma here, whereas the aforementioned technologies have an existing distribution network to leverage off of.

note: US centric opinion.
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