Can I assume PatrickS is Patrick Serfass of the National Hydrogen Association?
I dunno what more there is to say about Hydrogen. Maybe you had your chance? How’s that? Say what you want about Alan Lloyd, but the decision to cancel the zero emission vehicles the way CARB did is at least in hindsight a huge bonehead decision. We had “good enough” technology with NiMH cells, which are now tied up in patents (held by Chevron) until 2012 or so. CARB (and Lloyd) made their electric vehicle killing decision in 2003 and it was in that same year he became Chairman of the California Fuel Cell Partnership. Even under the best of circumstances, that represents a horrible conflict of interest. But that’s all ancient history. When it comes to vehicle fuels, methane (or natural gas, NG) is a better fuel than hydrogen. Like hydrogen it can be created from renewable sources (from biomass or synthetically via electrolyis of water and the Sabatier reaction). Like hydrogen it can be beneficially used in fuel cells, if and when they are commercially viable (especially solid-oxide fue
