Why not work on fuel cells that can work directly with ethanol. Hydrogen is a pain to store and transport. Alcohol is trivial. IIRC, methanol has better energy density but ethanol is ubiquitous and has other wonderful properties instead....
You are not wrong now, but hopefully will be in the not too distant future.
According to MIT Technology Review (wonderful mag!), there are exciting developments on the horizon:
"Today's coal-burning power plants are among the dirtiest sources of fossil fuel power. Gasification power plants--huge pressure cookers that convert coal into a stew of superheated gases that power a turbine--release fewer pollutants than conventional coal plants but still emit vast amounts of carbon dioxide, the leading cause of global warming. Research on cheap carbon dioxide removal, though, is gathering steam--and could make coal gasification a nearly zero-emission fossil fuel power source."
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Why not work on fuel cells that can work directly with ethanol. Hydrogen is a pain to store and transport. Alcohol is trivial. IIRC, methanol has better energy density but ethanol is ubiquitous and has other wonderful properties instead....
According to MIT Technology Review (wonderful mag!), there are exciting developments on the horizon:
"Today's coal-burning power plants are among the dirtiest sources of fossil fuel power. Gasification power plants--huge pressure cookers that convert coal into a stew of superheated gases that power a turbine--release fewer pollutants than conventional coal plants but still emit vast amounts of carbon dioxide, the leading cause of global warming. Research on cheap carbon dioxide removal, though, is gathering steam--and could make coal gasification a nearly zero-emission fossil fuel power source."