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The green car?


This post was published on Wednesday 5 March 2008.

Having written about a wooden car a few days ago, I found an interesting piece about a ‘green’ car, with ‘zero emissions’:

Green sports car set for launch

It uses hydrogen fuel, so creates only water as exhaust.   However - it requires hydrogen, and getting hygroden an energy-intensive process:

Critics point out that to produce hydrogen by splitting water uses a large amount of electricity. At present, the majority of this electricity comes power stations burning fossil fuels and therefore brings no environmental benefit.

However, the fact that this is the case now is not a good reason to stop exploring and researching this technology.   Hopefully one day someone will crack it (so to speak).