EU to ban gas and diesel powered cars by 2050...

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I bet though that is what all fossil energy related companies will say.

But this should give them more encouragement in the right direction.

delay transitioning to a hydrogen economy. But for that, all our cars would be dribbling water today.

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I would like to see this happen in the US as well. You would think that by the year 2050, there shouldn't be any reason to still be using gas and diesel power cars.

Peak Oil will take care of global warming (climate change for the anal). We've been on the peak plateau (also predicted) for six years.

They should move that up to 2020, not 2050.

carbon release into the atmosphere takes some time to have its fullest effect and combustion of petroleum hydrocarbons is only one source of greenhouse gases--coal is the other major source; look at the percentage of electrical generation that's from coal-fired plants in the US. Or China.

will be carried along by it's momentum before it begins to decline. For example, Peak Oil theory states that there should be a 40-year gap between the peak of oil discoveries, which happened in 1964, and the peak in global production. And, as predicted, here we are 40 years later bumping long the Peak Oil Plateau. So, without getting too sciency about it here, perhaps there will be such a gap before carbon peaks, depending on the nature of CO2 and on how much more we put in the atmosphere.

NO WAY we'll be able to invent anything as good in that short period of time.
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and building new power generating facilities. Changing that much energy from petroleum combustion to electric isn't going to be easy.

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Why? Because of tax.

In Europe certainly a huge amount of tax revenue comes from fuel taxes. A move to electric power would require road pricing (mileage tolls) as a way to replace that income and may be impractical for vast mileage of minor and back roads present in Europe. In addition electronic tracking systems based upon GPS, satellite and mobile phone systems are easy to jamb.

In the other hand hydrogen would come as a metered fuel, bound in hydrides, clathrates or other carrying media. It could be used in fuel cell vehicles and in internal combustion engines. The real difficulty is in finding good hydrogen sources.

Personally I think "Far offshore" wind and solar would play a part in the same way that distant gas and oil rigs are now serviced by ocean tankers rather than pipes. The efficiency of the H generation need not be high, cutting some of the capital cost

Just my 2 cents, feel free to destroy.