MIT study: Diesel Beats Hydrogen For Green Car Power

An anonymous reader writes "Bummer story on Science Blog for people looking to gas up on the H. Even with aggressive research, the hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle will not be better than the diesel hybrid -- a vehicle powered by a conventional engine supplemented by an electric motor -- in terms of total energy use and greenhouse gas emissions by 2020, says a new MIT study. If we need to curb greenhouse gases within the next 20 years, improving mainstream gasoline and diesel engines and transmissions and expanding the use of hybrids is the way to go."

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water, anyway

[bobba22]

A few years ago I read a lot about some guy who had his car running normally on plain old tap water, I even contacted him and got him to send me plans of how he did it (foolishly I lent these to friends). He disappeared like smoke. It all comes down to who you want to believe, be it the petroleum companies or the greens. Only an idiot would think that the gas companies are spinning that green is good and they are really helping them. In the UK, they are running deisel cars on old cooking oil in some areas, works fine! The gas companies will have you believe that only gas is good until they are good and ready to sell us something different.