Why All Electric Cars Now When Hydrogen Cell Feasibility is Just Around the Corner?
It is amazing how much money is being spent on research and development, and now the production of all electric vehicles for the market here the United States.
Yes, running vehicles off electricity is one way to curb our thirst for Middle Eastern oil, especially at a time when nations like India and China have increased the demand, and we are going to run through the supplies.
In fact, the demand is outpacing the ability to explore and find new reserves.
Perhaps, we may eventually get to a peak oil situation, and that means the price spikes could shut down almost all industrialized nations from an economic standpoint.
However, does it really make sense to turn all of our transportation vehicles into all-electric, or hybrids? I would submit to you the answer is no because all-electric vehicles also have other problems such as batteries.
These batteries currently don't last for that long, and after 5 to 7 years they need to be replaced.
We have nowhere to put these dead batteries, and our landfills do not need that sort of toxic waste.
But there is a significant other problem and that has to do with electrical generation in the United States, and the regulation we are putting onto coal-fired plants.
Also the subsidies we are giving to alternative energy is going to end up raising everyone's electrical prices, and I believe within the next five years electricity will triple in cost.
Therefore if you can currently fill up your electric car for three dollars for the electricity, that price will now be nine dollars.
Yes, that is cheaper than filling up your car for 30 or $40 at four dollars a gallon, but it's still not cheap, and it certainly isn't free.
Why can't we skip electric cars and go straight to hydrogen cell? Well, there are couple of reasons, but one of the biggest problems is the fuel tanks which would hold the hydrogen are simply unable to keep the hydrogen from leaking out.
If you will note hydrogen is number one on the periodic table, it's very small and it will leak out of just about any fuel tank made.
However, we may be solving that problem currently.
In fact, there was a very interesting article recently in Physorg Online titled; "Scientists achieve breakthrough in nanocomposite for high-capacity hydrogen storage" posted on March 13, 2011.
And just by the title of the article you can understand why this may indeed be a huge game-changer.
Now then, it may be 5 to 6 years to get those fuel tanks to market, but since we already have the fuel cell technology, maybe it's time to start looking at that rather than all-electric vehicles.
Perhaps it would be easier to use hydrogen to power up our cars.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this.
Yes, running vehicles off electricity is one way to curb our thirst for Middle Eastern oil, especially at a time when nations like India and China have increased the demand, and we are going to run through the supplies.
In fact, the demand is outpacing the ability to explore and find new reserves.
Perhaps, we may eventually get to a peak oil situation, and that means the price spikes could shut down almost all industrialized nations from an economic standpoint.
However, does it really make sense to turn all of our transportation vehicles into all-electric, or hybrids? I would submit to you the answer is no because all-electric vehicles also have other problems such as batteries.
These batteries currently don't last for that long, and after 5 to 7 years they need to be replaced.
We have nowhere to put these dead batteries, and our landfills do not need that sort of toxic waste.
But there is a significant other problem and that has to do with electrical generation in the United States, and the regulation we are putting onto coal-fired plants.
Also the subsidies we are giving to alternative energy is going to end up raising everyone's electrical prices, and I believe within the next five years electricity will triple in cost.
Therefore if you can currently fill up your electric car for three dollars for the electricity, that price will now be nine dollars.
Yes, that is cheaper than filling up your car for 30 or $40 at four dollars a gallon, but it's still not cheap, and it certainly isn't free.
Why can't we skip electric cars and go straight to hydrogen cell? Well, there are couple of reasons, but one of the biggest problems is the fuel tanks which would hold the hydrogen are simply unable to keep the hydrogen from leaking out.
If you will note hydrogen is number one on the periodic table, it's very small and it will leak out of just about any fuel tank made.
However, we may be solving that problem currently.
In fact, there was a very interesting article recently in Physorg Online titled; "Scientists achieve breakthrough in nanocomposite for high-capacity hydrogen storage" posted on March 13, 2011.
And just by the title of the article you can understand why this may indeed be a huge game-changer.
Now then, it may be 5 to 6 years to get those fuel tanks to market, but since we already have the fuel cell technology, maybe it's time to start looking at that rather than all-electric vehicles.
Perhaps it would be easier to use hydrogen to power up our cars.
Indeed I hope you will please consider all this.
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