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[NNadir]

...and have been since 2004.

ARTICLE | 2004

Hypercars, Hydrogen, and the Automotive Transition

By Amory Lovins

Designing and making cars differently and emphasizing ultralight weight, ultralow drag, and integrated design can reduce required propulsive power by about two-thirds. This can make direct-hydrogen fuel cells and commercially available compressed-hydrogen-gas tanks practical and affordable even at relatively high early prices. Coordinating such vehicles with deployment of fuel cells in buildings permits a rapid transition to a climate-safe hydrogen economy that is profitable at each step starting now...

Plus ça change...

In the week beginning May 16, 2004, the concentration of the dangerous fossil fuel waste carbon dioxide in the planetary atmosphere was 380.43 ppm. This morning the concentration was posted as follows:

May 15: 421.84 ppm
May 14: 422.04 ppm
May 13: 421.95 ppm
May 12: 421.87 ppm
May 11: 421.71 ppm
Last Updated: May 16, 2022

Recent Daily Average Mauna Loa CO2

In 2004 Hydrogen was overwhelmingly made using fossil fuels at a thermodynamic loss. In 2022 it still is.

[Beartracks]

1. "But, mah Hummer!!1! "

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[Turbineguy]

3. A 9 MPG patriot.

[EarnestPutz]

2. Thank goodness for the Rocky Mountain Institute. We're still going to need a few more nuclear.....

.....power plants and an improved electrical grid to make all the Hydrogen that will be needed. Doing it twenty years ago would have been nice, but let's keep trying people.