• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Hydrogen really isn’t good for the environment. You have to spend electricity to make it, then storing it is a massive issue just to turn it back into electricity. There’s some advantage to it with very large and heavy vehicles, but not for cars. Batteries make a lot more sense for cars, and you can charge them almost anywhere (theoretically). I can see shipping and maybe trucking moving towards hydrogen at some point, especially since shipping in particular is an extremely convenient location to produce hydrogen.

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      1 year ago

      I wish more people understood this. We aren’t going to find a one size fits all replacement for oil. It’s going to be using all the different renewable sources in different applications where they excel.

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        1 year ago

        It’s because people dont understand that hydrogen is a energy carrier and if we want to produce it in e green way it is more comparable to batteries than petroleum.

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      1 year ago

      Agreed. We’re going to see hydrogen being used in industrial scaled uses in the future more than transportation.

      However, I just watched the video a few days ago about the Canadian mining company that is switching all of their mining equipment to battery electric. I thought that was pretty interesting - The mine operator flatly said that hydrogen wasn’t financially viable.

      So I’m thinking hydrogen being used for steel manufacturing, chemical manufacturing and other major large scale materials processing.