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After 6 decades of development...
by Tundrayeti

It still costs ~$300,000 to make a hydrogen car. That's with a production line for most of the components, and an efficient assembly line.

These cars have low power compared to the average fuel-burning car, and typically only last ~80,000 miles.

Hydrogen pumps work out to several million dollars a pop, and hydrogen is impossibly difficult to ship. We buy it (for lab purposes), and it's delivered cost is over 100 dollars/kg (a kg of hydrogen has slightly less energy than a gallon of gas)... So the only way that it would work is if the filling stations each had massive electrolyzers and HVDC power lines running to them... adding several million dollars for every hydrogen pump you choose to install (this is cheaper than other options).

Note that Iceland was the country that invested the highest percentage of its money into hydrogen - it went bankrupt... California was the state that invested the highest percentage of its money into hydrogen... It had to be bailed out several times, and is facing bankrupcy.

Hydrogen technology is simply not competitive... but it's mainly the cost of the car, and the difficulty of distributing the hydrogen that are the major problems.

We're proposing to combine electrolyzed hydrogen (using off-peak wind and nuclear energy) with CO2 to essentially recycle that CO2 back into liquid fuels...

www.WindFuels.com

It gives you the same benefit of using carbon-neutral energy to produce fuels, but you can actually distribute the fuels, and you don't need a half-million dollar car.

:)

Look us over. (note we're at the development stage and looking for an investor... I'm not trying to sell you anything).

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