What Are The Advantages Of Using Hydrogen As Fuel In Cars?

Petroleum, otherwise known as petrol, results in pollution during every stage of production, this ranges from: mining and recovery to refining, transporting and more importantly using it as fuel. Drilling wells is responsible for direct pollution due to oil spills; consequently, drilling also leads to the injection of watery liquids into the wells which are later distributed as drilling mud that often cause their own toxic pollution. Furthermore, the transporting of such oil by tanker ships have the potential to cause great disasters resulting from oil spills. In addition, using pipelines and trucks are also not the safest methods of transport due to their ability to break or be involved in accidents.
Crude oil has a composition of various
In addition to having the simplest atomic structure, consisting of a single electron orbiting a nucleus consisting of a single proton, it is the most common element in the universal. However, it is not the most common element on earth as it occurs primarily combined with oxygen as water. (Oxford Dictionary of English 2015)
Advantages of Using Hydrogen as Fuel in
Firstly, it is an immense task to separate hydrogen from the other elements and this task is one that requires a great amount of time and money, therefore one has to depend on technology and lay waiting for it to advance enough to simplify and improve the process. Furthermore, hydrogen is challenging to move around in contrast to petrol, which can be transported through pipelines or in trucks. This element is too light to be transported in a conventional manner and it is impractical to do so due to the cost of moving small amounts being so steep. Additionally, all existing infrastructure revolving around petrol (petrol stations, cars etc.) are not equipped to accommodate hydrogen as a viable fuel replacement. In turn, all of the existing infrastructure would have to be remodelled at an exorbitant price to taxpayers and governments. Finally, whilst using hydrogen as a renewable source that has minimal environmental impacts, it is important to note that in producing pure hydrogen one must use non-renewable resources such as coal, oil and natural gas to separate it from oxygen. Thus, our dependency on fossil fuels may decrease but will never cease to