Steven Kyle demonstrates (through his note...) that he really is a 'reality based person' writing for 'a reality based blog'...

 
Steven Kyle (...ca sent l'MIT...?):

'(A note. Hydrogen is NOT an alternative energy source. It is an alternative intermediate form for transporting energy in, e.g. cars. Why? Because you need to use energy – usually electricity – to make the hydrogen in the first place. This means that hydrogen, though clean burning at point of end use, is really just another way of using electricity which is produced by all of the same old sources we have had for a long time – coal, oil, nuclear, hydro, etc. A truly alternative source would be one which did not rely on these fuels to produce the electricity, e.g. wind or solar)'