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BallardRex t1_iyeeiz5 wrote

Reply to comment by Debesuotas in The days of the hydrogen car are already over by Sorin61

Yes. Make electricity in places like deserts where people don’t live, where the sunlight is plentiful and year-round. Convert it to hydrogen and pipe it to combined cycle power plants to make electricity.

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____Theo____ t1_iyefmwq wrote

If only we could make a pipeline for electricity…

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BallardRex t1_iyegmyl wrote

I should have known better than to expect people in the technology sub to have a working understanding of the relevant technology, silly me.

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Seattle2017 t1_iyetbqi wrote

Clearly you are a hydrogen enthusiast. But I don't feel like you are acknowledging the issues people are raising. Like using electricity from the desert to split water to get hydrogen. Why not just use power lines to send that power to people? Hydrogen has potential, but it has big issues that aren't solved: (1) making it efficiently (lots of ideas like use solar power electricity but you can just put that power in the grid). (2) in practice virtually all h2 comes from fossil fuels. (3) almost no h2 vehicle market (did toyota give up yet?), almost no fueling places (california had 2, are there more?). (4) expensive to add new fueling places, unlike ever-present electrical outlets (5) doesn't really get cars very far, because it's not very compressed I take this back I checked at https://www.toyota.com/mirai/ and they say 400 miles for their best car. So that's good.

It has two great advantages, (1) once it's separated, it's not creating any exhaust when burned, (2) refuel your car in 5 minutes like a gas station.

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DonQuixBalls t1_iyetr81 wrote

You're the one pretending not to knownvasic arithmetic to prove your points.

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Straight_Ship2087 t1_iyef4mk wrote

Screw pipeline, I got two words for you: DRONE. BLIMPS.

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BallardRex t1_iyefc68 wrote

Lets just go full Arsenal Bird, I looooove the Ace Combat series.

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