There is a backstory that makes the Musk Apr1 farcical endorsement of hydrogen
more curious to those on this list.
Elon had done a rather solid and logical interview a few months back - it's on
YTube - in which he strongly put down the notion that H2 had any chance to
become a future transportation fuel due to intrinsic high cost - much less that
it would be a preferred way to replace batteries.
On the surface, he has billions tied up in an anti-H agenda... but ... but...
this is Elon Mush who is talking, and one suspects that he is the kind of guy
who would change horses midstream in a heartbeat and find a way to profit.
Notably, he does not mind being wrong.
Prior to this there had been and remains a nascent movement around the idea
that hydrogen made from wind or solar was going to be our savior on the energy
front - despite the intractable poor economics involved in the manufacture and
storage.
Anyway, as we know - the main pending but unproved R&D prospect which could
change things, including Elon's mind ... (and he has been known to pivot on
such things in the past)... would be if he had witnessed one of the LENR,
dense-H or hydrino developments such as Clean Planet or maybe BLP. In either
one of those Hydrogen again becomes the savior of our lifestyle... perhaps in
the form of "water fuel" which bypasses the H supply problem
If you had invented a functional watercar would not your first contact to
promote it be Elon?
MSF wrote:
I believe your olfactory skills are not required to determine this is an April
Fools prank. It fairly screams its silly nature, especially the hydrogen rocket
boost. If any doubt remains, the idea that you must pay in Dogecoin drives the
nail into it.
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