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Oxygen is readily available in the atmosphere. But hydrogen only exists in trace amounts in the air, and must be produced artificially--usually from fossil fuels, and perhaps in the future from rotting biomass and solar panels...
...while a multi-trillion dollar global industry has evolved to refine and distribute gasoline, no such infrastructure is in place for producing hydrogen...
...today's society, you can't run over to the corner gasoline station and fill up on hydrogen," said William L. Mitchell, senior program manager for the Hydrogen Technologies Unit of Arthur D. Little--a Cambridge based technology consulting firm...
While alternatives have been proposed, some companies have tried to find a middle ground by using methanol instead of hydrogen...
...example, Daimler plans to use methanol in its fuel cell cars and extract the hydrogen on-board. But experts have said that it will also be difficult to supply methanol to customers...