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Re: Bull F'ing Crap said by factchecker :
Solar powered and geothermal electrolysis plants... The Europeans have working setups already in testing.
Solar. Probably. Geo, not likely. Wind will probably supplement demand as well but it's horribly unpredictable from day to day. In most areas of the country, drilling to the depths necessary for geothermal would make station construction prohibitively expensive. Solar has the drawback of limited energy production / ft^2 and worse yet, it could prduce hydrogen at most 12 hours/day (well unless you live in Alaska).
If memory serves, Sweden has a southern highway ring with hydrogen stations for the limited demand but those won't keep up with the current auto infrastructure demand. I'm not even sure if all the existing stations could convert to solar producing hydrogen that enough could be produced to run all the cars on the road if they switched.
Like it or not, the most likely candidate for massive quantities of hydrogen production may well come from nuclear. Nukes are among the highest output plants in existence, and barring turbine/generator equipment problems, they run pretty much non-stop between re-fuelings.
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