...which is why the little Hydrogen anion is so easy to deal with, membrane-wise.

Reformers and stuff could be used, but it's all adding complexity and thus energy losses.

Certainly growing plants for C2H5OH would produce other issues; the busybodies are already getting uppity about feeding corn syrup to carcinogenic Diseasel engines instead of metastasing people by feeding it directly to them.

You cannot win...

 

Oh absolutely agree. The catalysts are bloody expensive and prone to being poisoned as well. I just meant it as an alternative to zapping water