Comments on: Feds propose $100 million hydrogen prize

House proposal would reward breakthroughs for innovations in hydrogen energy, with awards up to $100 million.

[GT1FAN]

Check this out

In my mind these people have already made a breakthrough on storing hydrogen. www.switch2hydrogen.com I thought this was ingenious when someone told me about it.

[altenergy]

Lack of Understanding

This hydrogen prize shows the lack of understanding that politicians have on this energy issue.

What they don't seem to be able to comprehend is that hydrogen is NOT an alternative energy source. Hydrogen will NOT replace oil or gas. There is no place on earth to drill for hydrogen, hydrogen must be made, and to make it, you require energy from somewhere. Hydrogen is a CARRIER of energy, not a source of energy!!!

The most efficient method of making hydrogen we have today requires natural gas and we are already running low on that. Hydrogen can be made with electricity but we haven't got enough of that either and what we do have is mostly made from fossil fuels that we are running out of. The only benefit that hydrogen could bring to the table would be if we had lots of natural gas, which we don't, we could convert the natural gas to hydrogen to remove the carbon and not contribute to global warming with hydrogen cars.

Even the oil companies don't believe hydrogen is a solution, but for some reasons the politicians seems to hang on to it.

There should be a prize and far more government investment, but not in hydrogen. They should put money into improving solar by reducing cost and efficiency, expanding wind and expanding use of ethanol made from both sugar or biomass. Making ethanol from corn is another sham because it requires so much energy to make.

Lastly no amount of alternative energy will replace out current demand so there needs to be government investment in massive conservation. There are huge opportunities to reduce consumption through efficiency, but you never hear about this.

[spytrdr]

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[spytrdr]

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