
Hydrogen: fuel or folly?
The Naked Scientists Podcast
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The Dangers of Hydrogen in Electric Cars
The physical characteristics of hydrogen make it almost uniquely unsuitable for a lot of the applications for which it's now being developed. It can burn in the air without producing carbon dioxide but does give off water vapor and water vapor is also greenhouse gas so it's just not as good as it's being made out to be. I definitely don't think we should be replacing petrol and diesel cars that still have a useful life with an electric car that type of wastefulness is not good for the environment. Nuclear power has a much better potential to meet a many of the applications that we're talking about, other than through electrification obviously.
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