Washington, DC, April 1 — CBS News has obtained exclusive video footage calling into question the claims by ClimateProgress blogger Joseph Romm that running a car on hydrogen is not practical.
Dr. Romm, a physicist and taxidermist, first became a minor celebrity in the tight-knit energy policy community when he reversed his pro-hydrogen-car position from the 1990s with the publication of The Hype about Hydrogen: Fact and Fiction in the Race to Save the Climate, which claimed to “prove” that hydrogen-powered cars are decades away.
As the video shows (warning, not suitable for children under 13), Dr. Romm has been driving a car that runs on hydrogen for years. In fact, the fuel Romm uses contains more hydrogen per gallon than the same volume of liquid hydrogen!
Jeremy Rifkin, hydrogen enthusiast and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, said, “This confirms what we suspected all along. Hydrogen denier — I think he prefers the term “delayer”– Romm was just cashing in with a contrarian book. I’m sure he raked in literally hundreds of dollars spouting his nonsense.”
At a hastily-assembled news conference, Dr. Romm said, “Yes, it’s true. My car turns hydrogen into energy that powers the wheels. But … but it also runs on carbon. The engine burns gasoline, a hydro-carbon, and….” The croud began to jeer, at which point Romm brushed away a few tears and said, “So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I’m human, which you know, for some people, is a revelation.”
Island Press has agreed to remove the book from the three remainder stores still carrying it.
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There, I KNEW it! I read HypeAboutHydrogen, and now I can see it was just one long “ad-homogen” attack on Rifkin. It was SO unfair: just because Rifkin didn’t account for where all the primary energy was going to come from for hydrolysis, Romm made it look like Rifkin hadn’t thought of that. But for all we know, he could have a totally awesome answer, and he was just saving it for the sequel–or maybe a trilogy. I mean come on – the first seven chapters of The Hydrogen Economy were a pretty good history of energy – he had lots of footnotes!
Jeremy Rifkin is a HERO and you hydro-skeptics barely deserve to even read his books, let alone say anything bad about them.
Joe,
You are a bad man, but I am told you’re an excellent taxidermist. I would like stuffed mushrooms for dinner. Can you help?
Nice to meet you.
I had a look at blog.
Please link to this site.
http://www.geocities.jp/yuyuifirst/