On 8/13/21 3:00 PM, Robert Bruninga via EV wrote:
You’ve completely ignored what I said - did you even read it?
Yep, every word of it. Yes of course, hydrogen will have a role to play,
but there is no getting around the fact that using Renewables to make
electricity to drive cars is 10 times more efficient to drive a BEV
directly (5% loss from wind/solar to the car.) compared to the 50%
energy loss in making hydrogen from the same electricity.
That ten times inefficiency is what makes hydrogen unsuitable as
a general replacement for cars. It is just centralized big (oil)
companies continuing to push their centralized big company
monopolies and control of distribution and perpetuating their
TANK model.
About 2014, I visited a cousin in Denver. I drove my newish Tesla up
there and did quite a bit of Tesla demoing. My cousin a retired
teacher with still close ties to her old high school. We visited the
school and did quite a bit of Tesla/EV talking as well as demoing. Her
school was quite proud of a hydrogen race car thing they had been
participating in for years. I delved into the details. Oil company,
Shell I think, was sponsoring. Looking at a nicely built open wheel
single seater on display at the school, and being told it was electric,
I asked about the source of the H2. "In this little bottle". "How do
you replenish?" "Put in another little bottle that the sponsor
supplies". EVERYONE seemed to ignore the problem of H2 source. It was
an ELECTRIC car. Just like a Tesla. They were just proud of their
electric car and unaware of the problem of oil company sponsorship.
Indeed, they were grateful for the sponsorship. I found the whole
thing rather dishonest and disgusting.
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