The article was mostly ok until all the way at the end.
Where he completely messes up and mentioned that hydrogen cars are "completely green".
Just a few sentences before that he says the car from Tesla is powered by "so-called green power" (electricity) from "dirty great power station".
Mr. Clarkson where do you think most of the hydrogen comes from ? Or the power to compress the hydrogen to make it compact enough for use by a car ?
Yes, there is a possibility someone will find a good way to produce to create hydrogen from algae. Or some breakthrough in the science of nuclear fission. We really don't know what will happen.
Anyway the real problem is efficient storage of energy and efficient conversion from storage to action/motion if I can call it that.
Batteries seem to be the current solution. But if we want to talk about environmentally friendly I don't know if they really are. I just know that batteries, like hydrogen use materials which come from nature which are just as finite as oil or matterial needed for fusion for that matter.
Although on Wikipedia it says:
'In addition, new Nickel-metal hydride and lithium batteries are non-toxic and can be recycled, and "the supposed 'lithium shortage' doesn’t exist"'
Hey, there's another article recently on HN about an MIT professor's "artificial leaf" meaning a solar cell that produces hydrogen directly. So now we know when that will happen.
Where he completely messes up and mentioned that hydrogen cars are "completely green".
Just a few sentences before that he says the car from Tesla is powered by "so-called green power" (electricity) from "dirty great power station".
Mr. Clarkson where do you think most of the hydrogen comes from ? Or the power to compress the hydrogen to make it compact enough for use by a car ?
Yes, there is a possibility someone will find a good way to produce to create hydrogen from algae. Or some breakthrough in the science of nuclear fission. We really don't know what will happen.
Anyway the real problem is efficient storage of energy and efficient conversion from storage to action/motion if I can call it that.
Batteries seem to be the current solution. But if we want to talk about environmentally friendly I don't know if they really are. I just know that batteries, like hydrogen use materials which come from nature which are just as finite as oil or matterial needed for fusion for that matter.
Although on Wikipedia it says:
'In addition, new Nickel-metal hydride and lithium batteries are non-toxic and can be recycled, and "the supposed 'lithium shortage' doesn’t exist"'
I don't know if that is true.