The Hydrogen Economy?
Source: John R. Wilson and Griffin Burgh, "The Hydrogen Report: An Examination of the Role of Hydrogen in Achieving US Energy Independence", TMG (The Management Group), July 2003
Excerpt:
In most instances, the total energy cost of producing, compressing, liquefying, transporting and deliverying [hydrogen] to the user will be far higher than the energy recovered from it. In addition, it is inconvenient and often dangerous to use. It makes no contribution whatever to energy independence — i.e., to weaning the US off Imported energy supplies — and almost no real contribution to eliminating or minimizing environmental issues such as global warming — that all has to be dealt with at the hydrogen or energy manufacturing plant and is independent of the choice of fuel.
Alternate document source: The Hydrogen Report: An Examination of the Role of Hydrogen in Achieving US Energy Independence
