Originally Posted by NuGuy

I was arguing with a hippie one day about how worthless H2 was as fuel. Engeering problems aside, and the fact that the dumbasses you face every day driving would each be in command of a mini-Hindenburg, I was pointing out that you can't simply stick a pipe in the ground and up comes bubbling cyrogenic hydrogen. You have to PRODUCE it, and that means simply moving the carbon from lots of places to one big place (plus eating a bunch in the production/transfer process), unless you go nuke, and hippies aren't a big fan of fission, it turns out.

But I pull him aside, and wisper to him, like I'm divulging a huge trade secret. I tell him about a way to store hydrogen at non-cryogenic temperatures and pressures. Extremely compact, and pound for pound, equal to what we use now. You just take the hydrogen, and bond it to a carbon, and string them along like Christmas lights.

He was really bummed when I told him it was gasoline. Turns out it's a pretty dang good way to store hydrogen.

Nu