Don't get me wrong: I'm all for alternate sources of energy. It's just that the whole "hydrogen economy" seems to work only with petroleum inputs. Right now we can build wind turbines and all the necessary infrastructure because the process is powered by petroleum.
Let's imagine that we build up all this hydrogen infrastructure complete with fueling stations, pipelines and storage facilities. Now imagine that the last drop of oil runs out. Can this infrastructure be maintained without petroleum? Is the machinery used in production hydrogen-fueled? Are the factories that make the wind turbines fueled by hydrogen?
It appears that while we could build up a hydrogen economy, it would work only until the petroleum inputs failed.
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