Why Not Create a Hydrogen Economy?

Congratulations on the largely excellent job your writers did in the Aug. 29 issue, especially Dan Neil for his take on Honda’s hydrogen car (“A Week Without Dinosaurs”). He emphasized that hydrogen is like a battery that stores energy, not a magic supply of energy. And until the supply problem is solved with renewable fuels, it’s just another drain on the same old dead-dino pool.

Solar panels are one approach, but he alluded to another: wind energy. While much less area-efficient than a nuclear plant, wind power is less costly. Where to place such wind farms when the cost of land is so expensive in California? Offshore, where the optimal wind sources are. With its enormous shoreline capturing the Pacific winds, California could be the Saudi Arabia of the hydrogen economy.

Harry J. Mangalam

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