Right now, the best hydrogen storage facility LEAKS 10% of its stores into the atmosphere.
And before you nitwit "chemists" pipe in about how hydrogen will only react to oxygen and form harmless water: these harmless water molecules will be formed in the upper atmosphere. Meteorologists have already calculated what would happen if we go mass hydrogen and release all that water into the upper atmosphere. They calculate higher frequency and higher magnitudes of hurricanes and tornados.
Sure, there'll be no ozone holes. But there won't be anything left standing on the surface.
Given any form of reasonable adoption rate, that wouldn't happen, at the earliest, for another 30 years. By that time, I don't think it'll be a problem. New technology will bring down any hydrogen leakage to a negligable minimum.
Don't assume the utterly worst outcome to be the most likely!
Well CO2 emissions have nothing to do with the hole in the ozone that has to do with CFC's reacting with ozone. What CO2 is related to global warming. Guess what the effects of global warming are, umm yeah, increased number and severity of hurricanes, tornados, and drought. I would tend to agree that this may not be a cure for global warming, but lets at least get our facts straight.
... sources of energy in the long-run. We'll continue to piggy back a hydorgen based economy on fossil fuels such as coal until we are able to support it with renewable forms such as nuclear, solar, wind, what have you. It'll just take time. Everyone is so pecimistic.
And before you nitwit "chemists" pipe in about how hydrogen will only react to oxygen and form harmless water: these harmless water molecules will be formed in the upper atmosphere. Meteorologists have already calculated what would happen if we go mass hydrogen and release all that water into the upper atmosphere. They calculate higher frequency and higher magnitudes of hurricanes and tornados.
Sure, there'll be no ozone holes. But there won't be anything left standing on the surface.
Don't assume the utterly worst outcome to be the most likely!
It takes large amount of energy to make hydrogen so do do people think that will come from?
Kieran Mullen
It takes large amount of energy to make hydrogen so where do people think that will come from?
Kieran Mullen