NYT: Has Calif.'s hydrogen highway gone bust?

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"SAN FRANCISCO -- Soon after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) took office in 2003, he set in motion a campaign promise to build, by 2010, a "hydrogen highway" composed of 150 to 200 fueling stations spaced every 20 miles along California's major highways.

Schwarzenegger's "Vision 2010" plan promised that every California motorist would have access to hydrogen fuel by the end of the decade. He has since repeatedly mentioned the highway in a standard stump speech on his environmental accomplishments.

But the program has fallen short of expectations. With less than 10 months until the end of the decade, 24 hydrogen fueling stations are operating in California, most of them near Los Angeles."

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2009/03/10/10greenwire-has-schwarzeneggers-hydrogen-highway-gone-bust-10054.html

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1. a technology with limited or no future - nt

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2. I would imagine there is some serious scrambling going on

in petrochemical board rooms, trying to find an energy market in which they can continue to be viable.

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3. We already have these places that sell gas what's the problem, just add hydrogen.

They already have flex fuel pumps.

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4. Hydrogen is a sham.

There are easier ways to transport energy than to use hydrogen as a medium.