I don't know which is 'better' but i know Japan has been working on Hydrogen for a while and should have a car out in the near future. They will do it and are not be tied up with the redtape as over in US. Any alternatives would be great. 2 more years till the Volt and Toyota Prius goes full electrical. (Plug-In to Recharge). I heard that there are garages that can convert todays Prius to plug-in for recharge. (The wheels do that now). I'm glad the gas prices have gone down but they need to change the whole system. I absolutely don't trust any of the gas companies with how things have gone in recent years.
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Almost all the hydrogen cars made are Japanese.
Almost all the hydrogen cars made are Japanese.
The corn market is already fucked, the farmers are already taking it in the ass. We make way more than we can think up uses for. Might as well burn it in an engine.
There are already some cars on the market that run on compressed air. With modern wind turbines to generate electricity, this is could be a viable option. Once all 6,000 antique wind turbines at Altamont Pass are replaced with modern ones, that one location will generate as much electricity as nine nuclear power plants if the new ones are those new GE 1.5 MW models or equivalent on average. GE also makes 2.4 and 3.5 MW wind turbines. Wind power is growing rapidly, and so is solar thermal. Wind power worldwide has recently passed U.S. nuclear in total output.
Some compressed-air cars:
http://www.autotechtoday.com/articl...Air-The-MiniCAT-and-CityCAT-by-MDI/Page1.html
Some compressed-air cars:
http://www.autotechtoday.com/articl...Air-The-MiniCAT-and-CityCAT-by-MDI/Page1.html
NYC may not be the best analog there. We have a lot of other non-scientific considerations with regards to cars in the city, cost of parking, alternate side parking, insurance rates from hell, etc.
All the more reason to abandon cars completely and go all-mass-transit.
Mass transit works great in urban areas but the population density in most of the US is not great enough to make mass transit practical. You can't live in the rural parts of most states without a car and the suburbs are all designed around the car.
How about something like a Chevy Volt whose internal combustion engine runs on E85 derived from switch grass and other non-edible weeds? That should be quite doable within the next decade.
It doesn't have to be. Implementing Japan-like systems on the coasts and smaller systems in the inland cities with high speed trains running between cities would go a LONG way in solving the problem. The use of electric cars, and getting people to start walking and biking could almost completely eliminate the problem.
The only thing standing in the way (other than the obvious bureaucracy) is Americans would have to have a major shift in culture and lifestyle.
But it has to happen.
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