Talk:Hydrogen Combustion Engine

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Some fact checking is in order. There is indeed no pollution involved in the combusion of hydrogen. It's just one atom of hydrogen combining with two atoms of oxygen, and the result is water. The pollution comes in because there is no easy way to get hydrogen. The most direct way seems to be to use electrolysis to take water apart, collect the hydrogen, and then liquify it and provide it to consumers. The problem is that all of those operations take energy -- something that people with bushy logic fail to perceive. The best deal would be to use hydroelectric power to generate electricity to use to generate the hydrogen -- but then you can't use that electricity to power trains, etc. Another idea is to use coal to power electric generators and use the electricity thus generated to produce and refrigerate the hydrogen -- but you have to burn coal and that means releasing carbon dioxide, radium, and other gas products and pollutants. Still, that's not bad if the coal furnaces have efficient scrubbers -- and if you can sequester the vast amounts of carbon doxide somehow.

Hydrogen is a neat fuel for automobiles. At least the automobiles are not spewing pollution wherever they go. But unless we can go from solar power to hydrogen in an efficient way it does not save us from adding greenhouse gasses and other pollutants to the atmosphere. p0m 19:52, 13 April 2006 (PDT)