Reddit reviews Smelling Land: The Hydrogen Defense Against Climate Catastrophe - Enhanced Edition

Not without challenges, but gasoline is pretty volatile as well. Jet fuel doesn't like you smoking near it either. But, there is the energy density required to move tubes of people through the air over long distances using hydrogen with minimal environmental impact. Some will argue filling the atmosphere with water vapor (clouds/exhaust) will reflect sunlight and cause a detrimental cooling effect, but could it be worse than what we're dealing with now? David Sanborn Scott wrote a pretty convincing book called Smelling Land some years ago in defense of hydrogen as a combustible energy source. Every energy source we take advantage of is beyond basic high school chemistry. I wouldn't want grade 12 kids running nuclear plants either.

Backing up to your statement about studying or researching transportation policies....did you happen to see this discussion on this sub a few days ago? Specifically the claim that Saudi oil isn't 'fully costed' because the super tanker operating costs are ignored. Is that at all credible? I'm sure that I have read elsewhere (as it relates to the 100 mile diet) that the carbon cost to move food from Chile to Vancouver is much smaller than the carbon cost to truck that food to Calgary which is also smaller than the carbon cost for me to drive to the store to buy those bananas or whatever.

I did a quick interweb search to try to find the CO2 emissions to move 1 ton of oil 1000 miles by pipeline or by truck or by rail or by ship...no go...do you have a good source?

Most of my hydrogen/nuclear thinking is nicely encapsulated in this book - heard of it and/or read it?

As for storage of energy, I like the method highlighted here, second image.

> There is no alternative to fuel for aircrafts at the moment however.

You did say "at the moment"...

Setting that aside for a moment, thoughts about using H2 for aircraft as outlined in this book?