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I saw this interesting comment in an article about toyota manufacturing their hydrogen car on autobloggreen or greencarreports yesterday. The commenter charged that Toyota is building their ridiculous hydrogen car because they plan to stripmine in Australia for too dirty to burn brown coal. Then use the coal to strip off hydrogen, pump the carbon into the ground, send hydrogen tanker ships to Japan and power Japans fleet of hydrogen cars and be at the for front of the new hydrogen economy. Easy.
What. Crazy right? Or is it? Hmmm. If true, makes sense and makes me never want to have anything to do with thier H car. Which, is so fantastically complex, it looks like it will be a dealers wet dream of a car that needs ridiculous amounts of service. I'm astownded and I can't believe how complex Toyotas H car is. I also can't believe their are so many terrible choices of places to get hydrogen... Natural gas, oil, coal and No thanks. Queue the Dr Evil soundtrack.
http://www.miningaustralia.com.au/news/brown-coal-for-a-cleaner-future-in-hybrid-cars
Did Toyota go Mad or have they been so for a while and we just pretend that Toyota is great because they made the Prius.
Thoughts?
I saw this interesting comment in an article about toyota manufacturing their hydrogen car on autobloggreen or greencarreports yesterday. The commenter charged that Toyota is building their ridiculous hydrogen car because they plan to stripmine in Australia for too dirty to burn brown coal. Then use the coal to strip off hydrogen, pump the carbon into the ground, send hydrogen tanker ships to Japan and power Japans fleet of hydrogen cars and be at the for front of the new hydrogen economy. Easy.
What. Crazy right? Or is it? Hmmm. If true, makes sense and makes me never want to have anything to do with thier H car. Which, is so fantastically complex, it looks like it will be a dealers wet dream of a car that needs ridiculous amounts of service. I'm astownded and I can't believe how complex Toyotas H car is. I also can't believe their are so many terrible choices of places to get hydrogen... Natural gas, oil, coal and No thanks. Queue the Dr Evil soundtrack.
http://www.miningaustralia.com.au/news/brown-coal-for-a-cleaner-future-in-hybrid-cars
Did Toyota go Mad or have they been so for a while and we just pretend that Toyota is great because they made the Prius.
Thoughts?