{"id":1200,"date":"2005-05-22T14:41:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-22T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sustainablog.greenoptions.com\/2005\/05\/22\/hydrogen-cars-still-decades-off\/"},"modified":"2005-05-22T14:41:00","modified_gmt":"2005-05-22T14:41:00","slug":"hydrogen-cars-still-decades-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/hydrogen-cars-still-decades-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Cars Still Decades Off"},"content":{"rendered":"
Tim at The Future is Green point us<\/a> to an article<\/a> that claims the “hydrogen economy” may be even further in the future than recently thought. This is a problem since the White House has put all of its eggs in the hydrogen basket, and Congress has bitten and provided big R&D money to hydrogen research at the expense of energy conservation and hybrid technology. Among the difficulties that have to be overcome: the need for platinum for fuel cells, and the perceived need for a new generation of nuclear reactors to produce hydrogen. Dan Becker of the Sierra Club sums up the larger problem nicely: “We don’t object to using R&D to do either basic research or research into something that may be in the distance,… What we object to is failing to do something now and using the R&D as a shield against doing something responsible today.”<\/p>\n Technorati tags: hydrogen<\/a>, fuel efficiency<\/a><\/p>\n