Doesn the production of hydrogen with fossil fuels produce more pollution than simply consuming the fossil fuel directly?
No, not with the IPFC process. MIT’s Laboratory for Energy and Environment performed an assessment in 2000 and again in 2003, which is explained on their website as follows: “The hydrogen fuel-cell vehicle has low emissions and energy use on the road–but converting a hydrocarbon fuel such as natural gas or gasoline into hydrogen to fuel this vehicle uses substantial energy and emits greenhouse gases. . . . Ignoring the emissions and energy use involved in making and delivering the fuel and manufacturing the vehicle gives a misleading impression.” MIT assumes that the obvious solution is to produce hydrogen from a non-fossil fuel, which, of course, is one answer. MIT states, “The hydrogen must, of course, be produced without making greenhouse gas emissions, hence from a non-carbon source such as solar energy or from conventional fuels while sequestering the carbon emissions.” The obvious answer now has a non-obvious counterpart: the Integrated Plasma Fuel Cell process, which opens the
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