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Great....now we get the "hydrogen bashing" group of people who think the only way to make it is to use energy from the power company. Their battery ideas are not that great either, batteries are a huge waste just cause of the disposal and short life alone.Solar and wind (maybe nuclear) energy can easily be used to make hydrogen...and then its all free technically. There was an article on here not long about about a place using nothing but solar to make steam.Why not tap into a volcanic areas and use the naturally ridiculous hot place as a source of energy to make steam for power.But I guess people who cannot see past the energy plant that uses a dying source for energy...to understand something like hydrogen.

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I bet this plane is very quiet.In most small planes it is so noisy you can barely hold a conversation.

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Thanks for posting the link.Hydrogen economy is just a series of additional conversion steps on top as an alternative to already existing more efficient electrochemical system. The reason for pursuit of hydrogen economy is simple - refusal of the current fuel suppliers to adjust to new ways of doing things. It's about forcing the customer to go to the pump and get hydrogen instead of gasoline, while keeping everything else exactly the same. Inefficiencies to them do not matter cause it is the customer that is going to absorb the costs anyway.

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This is great because we just discovered huge deposits of free hydrogen. We did, right?

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Though it is a token effort, the nay sayers will try and bury the success of this flight. They will say it is a non-starter and can never ever be pursued as a viable alternative to oil.

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