Why Should The Automakers Be Bailed Out?
Posted by BuelahMan on December 6, 2008
Other than all the jobs and businesses that survive because of these jobs, they shouldn’t be…
UNLESS they commit to this and DO IT by 2010.
Watch below and let the significance take you in.
What if you could not just plug your car into your house to charge at night, but could actually plug your house into your car to get its electricity? Are you beginning to get the significance of fuel cells and the change they could make in our lives?
Perfecting this technology and generating/storing hydrogen is done every day in industry (its not as exotic as you may be led to believe), so you know this is no huge leap in infrastructure. I am not totally sold on the “networking” aspect he talks about, but I see how it could work.
So we MUST bail them out but only with the commitment and financial backing to convert the infrastructure (including modification tax benefits to home owners) and we have a winner. This will break the back of the Big Oil over automotive once and for all.
I can actually see different manufacturers developing competing alternative propulsion sources (electric, hybrid, air), but all towards the idea of stopping any need for gas as a source of fuel. The technology is here. Lets do it.
http://www.ted.com General Motors veep Larry Burns previews cool next-gen car design: sleek, customizable (and computer-enhanced) vehicles that run clean on hydrogen — and pump energy back into the electrical grid when they’re idle.
Rob Costa said
I agree completely that any bailout needs to be tied towards a real move to cleaner, more efficient cars that are better able to utilize alternative energy.
However, he talks about hydrogen as an “energy carrier” (his words). Hydrogen is not an energy source, generally it takes electricity to make it. You wouldn’t actually gain new energy here, you gain portability. His wording than about cars generating power is somewhat problematic. It’s not like we would be decommissioning all power plants and using cars, we’d just be able to MOVE power in a tank.
For more information, you might want to check out this post I wrote some months ago. http://smashthemirror.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/hho-gas-magic-what-a-hydrogen-car-isnt/