Michael's Mind

This article in the Register discusses getting hydrogen from, of all places, sunflower oil.

Not scalable, either in cost or quantity. The quote from the article:

is unadulterated bullshit. The fuel that will replace oil has not been invented yet, and all the screwing around with hydrogen doesn't change that one bit. Hydrogen is not a source of energy, it is a method of storing energy that came from somewhere else. The best of all alternatives involving hydrogen is to make it using nuclear power, and you can do that with rainwater, not sunflower seeds.

If the planet runs out of exploitable petroleum sources before an alternative is available, a possiblity that seems more and more likely, the citizens of earth will get to spend an eternity living like their pre-industrial revolution ancestors did: a world lit by wood fires, the farthest place you will ever see limited by how far you are willing to walk, no meaningful medical care, no transportation that can move faster than a horse.

In other words, the world that the Green Party wants now.