hydrogen is probably the most ridiculous alternative to fossil fuel out there, and has such a low chance to ever threaten the oil industry that it's the focus of all their efforts at "alternatives".

The reason why it's ridiculous? Hydrogen is not naturally found in a compressed, pure liquid form. It's usually part of something else, mostly water. And it needs to be separated from the oxygen in the water to be used.

And the basic fact will always remain that the sheer amount of energy necessary to the breaking of the water molecule into hydrogen is higher than the energy provided by those very hydrogen atoms. Period. There will always be what's called an energy sync. And that energy we take to make the division, how is it made? Through hydro, wind, solar, fossil or nuclear. In other term, we've not fixed anything.

Worst still, hydrogen is a very small atom. In other term, you need a particularly tight and special - and expensive - type of container to transport it. And it's very, very explosive - if they make the crashtests, I don't wnant to be near, let alone be in one when I get an actual accident.

The whole hydrogen alternative is bogus, it abuses our credulity.

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