Thankfully? NO! I've seen experimental models of Hydrogen fueled cars on TV shows like, Mythbusters, and Nova. When this one model burns hydrogen, (this is the COOL PART!) They produce water, and oxygen!
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It's not just Bush. Practically and realistically, a great volume of hydrogen ain gonna be produced without burning fossils fuels.
Also Uranium and other stuff used for nuclear fission are listed as "fossil" fuels. But they are consumed without setting free any CO_2 . They are just devilish in an other way.
Hydrogen is a great source of fuel because of the energy realeased when it bonds with oxygen to make water. Unfortunately this means that there is prescious little hydrogen floating around that is not bonded with water. Infact as then mean speed of hydrogen is greater than the escape velocity of Earth I imagin all unbonded hydrogen disappears fairly quickly into space. To aquire hydrogen you break up water, however this takes exactly the same amount of energy it gives out when you use it as a fuel. So while you can use it to fuel your car some power station somewhere has still had to generate the electricity to break up the water to start with. It all comes back to fusion and solar power, in the future (long time away) I imagine that domestic power will come from solar, whilst industry and public facilities will be powered by a grid like we currently have with fusion reactors. In the short time its nuclear or fossil fuels.
geothermal and nuclear power are the cheapest ways to do it (cheapest economically, cheapest in enviromental footprint, etc...) then nuclear waste has either got to go somewhere or be fused.......
geothermal is by no means a solution for everyone, or indeed many people. Though I agree when it is possible its a good solution.
What we need is a product that burns like gasoline in a gasoline engine but isn't gasoline. Hemp IIRC can produce such a thing. And no, please, not diesel. Sooty expensive engines.
You can burn anything organic pretty muchif you try hard enough, though they all give off carbon dioxide. Petrol is acutally a fairly simple hydrocarbon that burns quite well, I believe its all the additives that cause the real problems.
Well, I actually thought of one possible problem with the hydrogen car. If they are produced (which will probably happen), what if there is an increase in storms. I don't mean just regular storms. Huge storms that we can't even imagine. With tornadoes 10 times greater than ever seen before. Just a thought tho.
Im not sure I get your drift? Are you talking about ruptured fuel tanks? If so its not like petrol is exactly unreactive. A gas fuel tank would be built with a weak point that in the case of dangerous streeses would ruptur in a controlled manner and allow the gas to vent. Either in a brief jet of flame or preferably evacuate the gas quickly as dfiffuse it rapidly into the atmosphere.
