If the US had 20 nuclear plants dedicated to producing hydrogen, enough energy could be stored to power all US automobiles. That sounds achievable (flamebait acknowledged), and government reports predict it will happen by 2050. Do we have 40 years? It seems with an Apollo type effort we could do it in 10 years. (eg. 2 years planning, 6-8 years to build the reactors, and parallel efforts in fuel cell research, along with phased in market incentives like early subsidies on hydrogen fuel, fuel cell cars, and infrastructure projects).
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If the US had 20 nuclear plants dedicated to producing hydrogen, enough energy could be stored to power all US automobiles. That sounds achievable (flamebait acknowledged), and government reports predict it will happen by 2050. Do we have 40 years? It seems with an Apollo type effort we could do it in 10 years. (eg. 2 years planning, 6-8 years to build the reactors, and parallel efforts in fuel cell research, along with phased in market incentives like early subsidies on hydrogen fuel, fuel cell cars, and infrastructure projects).