Interesting article.

But what happens when there is competing use for the bio feed stock - like food...

On hydrogen - the lack of infrastruture makes it a very long term option, plus it takes about a day to fill a hydrogen filled car with enough fuel!

Think I'll stick to fill my car with petrol and making money from investing in oil stocks!

Scott...

www.h2stations.org

Zoom in on Europe and note the lack of red/green dots in the UK compared with others.

I don't know what kind of world the author lives in, but in the real world, the price of oil extraction, of the steelwork for the rigs, of transportation, etc. etc. are all highly dependent on energy prices.

If the price of oil & gas goes up, then the price of steelwork goes up, the price of transportation goes up, the price of commuting oil workers to work goes up, in fact virtually all the costs of extraction, meaning that there is no cost of oil at which they'll ever be economic.

Dick - your website reenforces my point - H2 infrastruture in order for mass move away from oil is a long way off.

Plus the best way to generate hydrogen is through extraction from methane...with CO2 the output!

Scotland should stick to oil...its pretty good at it.

Scott

Hardly - what it demonstrates is that everyone else is getting on with the business of rolling out refuelling stations to stimulate interest and new technologies. The UK as usual is not bothering.

Plus - the best way to produce hydrogen is via electrolysis using - preferably - a renewable energy source.. The Norwegians are also already building electrolysers as well.

Its odd but in the last energy crisis we were continually told there was enough 'oil' in the Athabasca tar sands to meet any world oil shortage.
Now they are telling us there is no oil shortage because there is enough in ultra deep wells why not bore a little deeper and we could have unlimited heat energy.
No I'm afraid the days of cheap motoring are definitely limited and the era of cheap flights (are they really cheap?) will be shortlived.
The French/Belgians/Germans/Dutch/Italians/Spanish/Swiss/Italians and others are installind or have already installed/modified a transport system to utilise any fuel source(ie the cheapest) its called electrified rail.
Meanwhile the British D(a)fT say we should not do so because there could be another Chernobyl or Rail cannot use Nuclear as its 'sole' sorce. And biggest laugh of all because Hydrogen Technology may come in in the next 15 years. I go back to the last two energy crises where the 'eggspurts' were promoting hydrogen and cold fusion.
Hydrogen will be very expensive for a very long time.
Bio fuels will not be so expensive but food will - the choice is yours.
Use your 4x4s sensibly - you know it makes sense.