{"id":2001,"date":"2004-06-01T19:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-01T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2001"},"modified":"2004-06-01T19:35:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-01T23:35:00","slug":"hydrogen-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/06\/01\/19\/35\/hydrogen-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Hydrogen Hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"

Suppose you load compressed hydrogen into canisters and put them on the back of tractor trailers: you will need fifteen of these trucks to serve the same number of vehicles as one gasoline tanker does today, and if on average they’re traveling three hundred miles, they’re using 40 percent of all the energy they deliver just to transport it. Suppose you decide instead to produce the hydrogen at filling stations with small steam methane reformers … building the necessary infrastructure to service 40 percent of American vehicles by this method would exceed $600 billion. <\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Suppose you load compressed hydrogen into canisters and put them on the back of tractor trailers: you will need fifteen of these trucks to serve the same number of vehicles as one gasoline tanker...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t