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Part 4: Hydrogen Basic Facts: USA Ethanol subsidy rate (pre-2012) -SH billion'year Cost of current Hydrogen Fuel cell system (at S0.45/gallon of ethanol) $7000/car. Rest of "glider" is same as any regular car Current cost of commercial hydrogen-production system cars/day; Nat. Acad. Eng- 2004). of service stations in USA 120,000 (in 2002; last census) a. The Infrastructure Hydrogen can be produced from "'reformers" that currently use Natural Gas (stripping off the carbon atom). Home units (from Honda in California) are about $5000 e main investment would be service stations. In the "chicken-and-egg" situation, one would desire that at least 25% of America's service statio ns could offer Hydrogen refueling service stations using existing pricing/technology? diverted to this Hydrogen-infrastructure program? (1) what would it cost to add full-scale hydrogen delivery to 25% of America's (2) What would be the equivalent "Years of Ethanol Subsidy" if these funds were b. Subsidize Hydrogen Fuel-cell systems (1) If a decade's (10 years) amount of pre-2012 Ethanol subsidy had instead directed toward providing "free" fuel-cells for Hydrogen-cars; how many Hydrogen cars would have been on the road by 2020? (2) If the Federal Reserve program in 2010 for "offsetting recession" ($600 billion of "cash created from thin air") had been instead put into (a) First, installing the Hydrogen-infrastructure (part "a", which you did just above), THEN, after deducting that cost, providing "free" fuel-cells for Hydrogen-cars; how many Hydrogen cars could have been put on the road? Part 5: Putting it all together True, the above suite of calculations was a biased analysis and ignores many other factors. However, based partly on what you've computed and analyzed, what conclusions and recommendations would you make for the Short-term, and for the Long-term of USA vehicle systems? And How we should make that happen?

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