Hydrogen — Car Fuel of the Future?
HYDROGEN is being touted as the car fuel of the future, but much depends on the way it is produced. Hydrogen’s advantages are that it emits no carbon dioxide or sulphur dioxides, two gases which are major contributors to the greenhouse effect and acid rain. Hydrogen is most easily made by electrolysing water, but if the electricity used in the process is coal or oil-fired, there is no benefit to using the fuel. The Washington-based World Resources Institute argues that the electricity to make hydrogen could come from sunlight. If a hydrogen-fuelled car was driven for 16,000 km a year, it would need 280 sq ft of solar collecting area. In the United States that is the equivalent of 0.5 percent of the country’s entire land area to provide for every car.
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Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 February 1990, Page 6
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138Hydrogen — Car Fuel of the Future? Forest and Bird, Volume 21, Issue 1, 1 February 1990, Page 6
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