Better to go all electric so that those who choose independence may buy a wind or solar generator and fuel up on their own.

Having all these electric cars connected to the grid when not driving, serve as the decentralized electricity storage system, this sort of system will ensure that the residential grid capacity will not need to be expanded, just maintained.

Small hydrogen generators at home may be good in theory, but they are still far less efficient than charging a battery or capacitor directly, and would create yet another hazard in the home as a hydrogen storage tank would be needed.

Not to mention that Platinum, and the other catalytic precious metals, are enormously expensive, and would be even more so if 1 billion cars needed a couple of ounces each.

The Fossil industry’s are the only one it seems that are still pushing Hydrogen. They don’t care at all what fuel we use, they just want absolute control over the distribution. That is the key to the domination they have had all these years.

Remember, these companies and individuals like the Rockefeller family, have made ASTRONOMICAL profits for a century with no real effort, they do not want to lose this power and will say and do anything to keep it.

It is time for that to stop.

Unless small hydrogen generators for private use become available on the market at an affordable price.

The problem you forgot to mention is that grid-independent private production of solar and/or wind-based electricity is only feasible with a storage system for the solar summer surpluses and/or the eolian output gaps.

What I wrote about the mass-produced hydrogen fuel-cell car (granting easy availability of its power plant to small aircraft builders) is obviously also true for the motor and battery of the mass-produced electric car.

Hence, with an affordable hydrogen generator for private use, both hydrogen fuel-cell and purely electricity-powered individual mobility (whether roadbound or airborne) will be feasible in complete energy autocracy.

I hate the control that Big oil has over my fuel supply, especially considering the market manipulation that accompanies it. Hydrogen can and will be manipulated just as oil has been, because distribution will be monopolized.
I’m sure there is room for niche markets, but to fall for the same monopolies again is just stupid.

Once automotive hydrogen power-plants will be mass-produced, these systems will become as affordable for use in small aircraft as the 4-cylinder air-cooled boxer engine of the VW Beatle had become in its time.

The sad truth is, alas, that any R & D into aircraft-dedicated systems will not only suffer from total lack of government funding, but actually from strong obstruction and even sabotage by official institutions like the NASA or the MIT for instance. Let’s not forget that the minds of their researchers and engineers are strongly formatted to prevent any significant advance in personal freedom of movement that could lead to massively popularized individual aeromobility.

Moreover, this kind of intellectual formatting is backed by a set of stringent legal restrictions issued by the US govt to curb the trend, as witnessed by the following two figures: by the end of the seventies general aviation sales were up to 20.000 units per annum — twenty years later this figure had dropped to a mere 700…

The US rulers of the world are indeed keen on maintaining total control of the global airspace with their supersonic fighter-bombers and nuclear aircraft-carriers for planetary air superiority — hence their fear to see this joker for world-wide power enforcement threatened by the civilian society taking possession of the global airspace with myriads of personal aircraft.

This is the very reason why roadbound individual mobility was pushed beyond all common sense as a strategy-based policy, which is in fact at the root of the current crisis threatening to spread to the whole planet, with countries like Russia, China, India, and ultimately Africa bound to be heading straight into the wall if they act irresponsibly enough to go it all for the automobile (whether gasoline or hydrogen-fueled) and its excruciatingly expensive highway networks.

Reptiles got airborne 200 million years ago…

We have all the material and electronic technology to get all of us individually airborne as free as birds in the bluish ocean surrounding our lonely spaceship…

The future of mankind is in the air!

The changes that could come out of this research could make the idea of hydrogen cars more feasible and less expensive.

What begins? Covering highway distances by electric fuel-cell cars running on hydrogen?

I would rather say: And so it ends, i.e. the era of roadbound individual macromobility, whether on gasoline or electricity.

The alternative for macromobility (beyond the urban perimeter) is the electric, hydrogen-powered Personal VERTOL-Aircraft!

Because of the high concentration of landing and starting aircraft around cities, vertical take-off and landing is yet a basic requirement for the transfer of intercity road traffic into the airspace — but don’t think of the helicopter as the PA of the future, because the chopper suffers several handicaps which make it, each by itself, ineligible for this purpose.

The main handicap in a massively crowded airspace is the heli’s poor lateral reactivity which would call for too much lateral clearance between aircraft approaching or leaving cities (although tight vertical separation would be no problem because of the strong vertical reactivity of the chopper due to the instantaneous collective blade pitch variation of its rotor).

But low speed, poor energy yield, and high noise level are the other main handicaps anyway.

The latest development, i.e. Sikorsky’s X2, which is almost twice as fast and much less fuel-greedy, could however be an intermediary solution for the elite to start the trend towards massively widespread individual aeromobility.

But you will have to wait for the revolutionary rotary-wing aircraft I have invented and which combines the advantages of the fixed and the rotary wing concepts without suffering their respective shortcomings!