Reply #32: Meh

[cyborg_jim]

Current methods of generating electricity include Solar and wind...

And currently do you think these methods of generating electricity could possibly hope to supply enough energy to replace the demand for petroleum in cars?

It is all very well noting that electricity can be generated by such mechanisms but it just ignores the very real problems we have with extracting, storing and utilising this energy.

The production of electricity is not done solely through coal, fuel oil or natural gas.

And yet, for some reason I do not comprehend, you seem to imply that for some reason the production of hydrogen would be.

You seem to imply for some leap of logic I do not fathom that it would in fact require the energy requirements of nuclear fusion to have a hydrogen economy.

Please pardon my ignorance. I am not an engineer or a battery expert but it is my understanding that NiMH batteries do not suffer from "memory lock" to nearly the extent that NiCad batteries do.

Hydrogen doesn't suffer from it at all.

I don't think replacing the environmental problems of petroleum based fuels with the environmental problems of battery chemistry is a sound decision.