And the hydrogen will come from where?

Hydrogen does not exist by itself in nature; it must be ‘produced’ from substances that contain it.
You can get it from fossil fuels – which we are trying to stop using – or from splitting water.
The water option requires alot of electricity!

Therefore hydrogen is an energy storage medium just like a battery.

If you need electricity anyway, hydrogen is only cleaner if it requires less per mile than a battery electric vehicle.

This is not the case.

Everyone needs to understand Agassi’s business model. It can be deployed in mass quantity in most developed nations within the decade.

Clean electricity is emerging. If you look at the venture capital over the past decade that has poored into wind development you will see the trend. Picken’s understands the potential for clean electricity is huge in the U.S. In the meantime, any carbon pricing schemes emerging post U.S. elections might better enable carbon capture and storage although I see coal-fired generation losing in the medium to long term.

Even with dirty electricity, a study in Denmark showed by switching to EVs they would reduce overall emissions by approximately half in the transportation sector (keep in mind that one fifth of their electricity is wind generation).

Get together Pickens and Agassi. Get on the same page. Together, the two of you could be the catalysts yielding EVs and clean electricity in order to meet the recent “Gore challenge”.

I agree with Connie (above) and hope that Obama adapts his energy platform to include Agassi’s vision, and component’s of Picken’s plan.

Best,

Congrats!! We need more Agassi’s out there working with Obama!!

No, I don’t think we can all agree on that! The end game? You’re kidding right? There’s no such thing, but I would say that the short term goal should be kicking the carbon habit. Foreign oil, yes but how about all oil, natural gas, and coal too. There is plenty of clean renewable energy to supply all of us, without the need for non-renewable energy sources. Before we even got half way to replacing 100% of our non renewable energy in this country renewables would have become so cheaper.
I applaud the idea of Pickens wanting us off oil but I think natural gas vehicles are a stupid idea. Electric makes much more sense. They get cleaner over time as the grid becomes more renewable. And if mass production of electrics really started in earnest I believe economies of scale would really push the tech up and the cost down.
Really, it’s all about getting production up. Conventional PV will reach grid parity in 10 years based on historical trends, and probably much sooner with thin film.

We need much cleaner alternative like hydrogen powered vehicles etc.