On or around Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:43:16 -0000, "Robin"
enlightened us thusly:

So we get to find out the actual figures in the budget. Great.
Robin

The relevant text:-
Road Fuel Gases 7.35

bloody gits.

so what's the next magic solution, Hydrogen I suppose. which is a LONG way
from being the magic pollution-free fuel that everyone keeps dreaming of.

I reckon that with serious investment, you might get a substantial amount of
genuinely-renewable hydrogen (not produced, for example, from methane but
cracked from water by renewable electricity) in oh, about 20 years.

even then, it requires a radical rethink of the way the whole system works -
you start working out the volume of fuel which is used currently for
transport of all kinds, and it's a truly big number.

Granted that high-efficiency PV solar panels have been made and demonstrated
and work, and you can get H out of the H2O with such, the sheer volume of
the problem is such that this ain't gonna be practical in the short or even
really medium term, and governments only look at most 3 years ahead anyway.


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