Posted on 09/13/2023 1:57:50 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
One way to store hydrogen, with good energy density at reasonable pressures and temperatures, is to combine it with carbon.
One would consider a hybrid truck for the reasons you mention, plus the functionality as a generator, good for running corded power tools and appliances, etc. Especially in a 3/4 ton trucks that would be da bomb.
However, one is driving one’s last Ford today. One will consider all available brands before Ford, if one has need for a new truck sometime in the future.
My pet rock is still a useful paperweight
An electric pickup was never useful.
Yep, I have a 2022 “Powerboost” Hybrid F-150...430 HP, 23 mpg highway, 500+ mile range on one tank. And 7,200 watts (120v/240v) of AC power available in the bed of the truck. Like it so far, but lots (30+) “modules”(”computers”) to worry about...(gotta plug my laptop into it for “insights”)...may have to trade it in at 3 years/36K to avoid electrical “gremlins”? We’ll see.
Companies like PlugPower, Ballard, FuelCell have been trying to make it work for several decades now. For golf carts and space capsules ok; for cars and trucks, won’t work.
Oh, noes! It’s worse than I thought.
I posted this on a different thread, but applies here as well. According to Wikipedia:
“As of 2022, commercial electrolysis requires around 53 kWh of electricity to produce one kg of hydrogen, which holds 33.6 kWh of energy.”
Not very efficient if you are getting it from water, unless you have more electric power than you know what to do with.
In my part of CA 53 kWh costs about $21.00, and apparently the best efficiency hydrogen fuel cell car (Toyota Mirai) gets about 150 miles per kg of hydrogen. So about the same as a 33 mpg gasoline car at current $4.77/gal. CA gas prices? (BTW: Toyota Marai’s not selling real well in SoCal despite generous subsidies/credits from the govt.)(too few hydrogen filling stations & fueling issues w/”freeze ups”).
No; it literally takes more energy, in the form of electricity (coal, NG, etc), to make H than burning H generates.
I *WAS* thinking of replacing my 2012 F-150 Ecoboost with a new plug-in hybrid F-150, as I seldom tow anything more than a utility trailer. I *do* pull the boat out on the trailer once a year, and put it back in in the spring, but the ‘neighborhood’ boat ramp is directly across the street - about a 300 yard tow. Even the Lightning could handle that.
BUT! the Lightning cannot get me to and from our 1200 acre deer lease. (no electricity or water etc there)
sooooo true.
And the really amazing thing is that these combinations of carbon and hydrogen, or “hydrocarbons” as I call them, occur naturally in enormous quantities. It seems as if people could recover them and put them to some sort of use.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgKhnQHTVSQ
Not joking did you know mini AOC videos were pulled because she was getting death threats from the left? Death threats on an 8 year old girl…that is a sobering thought.
But have you seen the 2024 Mustang GT? It’s a winner.
Then you get cydroharbon
Why would ANYONE want to make our water disappear this way?
Them darned folks that live in a DESERT perhaps??
...off the line anyway.
the original article is so poorly written that it must have been written by a high school dropout or AI, AND without the touch of an editor familiar with the english language ...
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