Screaming Penguin

well the new "study" that all these latest reports have come out about bases basically all of the negative findings on, now get this, 10% of all pure hydrogen transported or used leaking into the atmosphere. then, once that 10% is leaked, it goes on to speculate about the chemical process that COULD happen to break down ozone. i heard this on NPR yesterday. many people seem to think this a flawed study because 10% leakage is supposedly way out of line with reality. i dont know what reality is, but I would say whatever we leak in terms of petroleum, gasoline (which i hope is not damn 10%) we probably will leak in hydrogen. now i think this is something we should address, we shouldnt be LEAKING ANY, but somehow that will never get addressed, its too expensive or time consuming or difficult or whatever to transport these materials that are dangerous to the environment and do it in a way so that we DONT seem to dribble and splatter them everywhere we go. however, whatever the leakage percentage, i think its totally great that this new study is putting some focus on potential issues with hydrogen. thats damn sure what we need if we plan to use it en masse. whatever the fuel and related technology is, if its hydrogen, natural gas, mushrooms, tequila, or whatever, we need to understand all the implications of it being released into the atmosphere, water, land, etc, because it WILL HAPPEN. overall, as the NPR story stated, hydrogen will have issues but they should be nothing compared to the effects of petroleum over the decades.