Posted on 02/25/2015 12:04:07 PM PST by ckilmer
Some years ago, a so called "friend" tried to push me into a large pool of the stuff.
I watched my back around him from then on.
Yeah, well. When it’s in yer lemonade and you breathe at the same time your suppose to swallow, it comes back through the nose and doesn’t feel good...
There’s a hydrogen filling station just a couple blocks from where I live. I was checking it out yesterday and wondering about it.
Basstuhd!!!
Frienemy...
In Cali, they are 70% funded by the state govt. Some would call it crony capitalism.
+1+1+1
That’s only relevant if that hydrogen can be plucked out of the air with a giant air scoop for fuel. What’s the source of the hydrogen used in the car?
Does Moore’s law apply?
At this point, anyway.
That will be the least of the problems. H2 molecules are tiny and hard to contain. Gas leaks will be common. H2 floats up into stratosphere where it eats the ozone layer.
DC electricity has certain advantages, but one huge drawback - it cannot be transmitted over any wire for more than a relatively short distance from the point of generation to the point of consumption, before the losses due to electrical resistance become too great to transmit meaningful amounts of power.
All the battery power in the world cannot hold a sufficient charge to get past the relatively short period at which electricity may be discharged, and the relatively long time to restore that charge to the batteries. Way too much is lost as resistance, which is degraded into heat.
I don’t know, but within the rules of the game they are doing better than anybody else.
There was some in my coffee this morning but I dealt with it in the proper manner and saved everyone from the danger.
And someone driving near our building this morning had a car accident because some of it had collected on the road and it had turned into a solid form. Dangerous stuff!
I don’t think that’s the case here in Japan. I’ve read several papers that indicate there is an emerging consensus in the manufacturing industries that hydrogen is the way to go for a lot of things.
Case in point, in greenhouse agriculture, there is a strong move towards replacing fossil fuel heaters with hydrogen burners, which not only heat the greenhouse, they add humidity and are virtually pollution free.
Hitachi is spending a lot of money on hydrogen technology, and of all the big name Japanese firms I am familiar with, they are the ones that consistently come up with the most surprising successful innovations, so I am not going to bet against them on this.
How are they planning to generate the hydrogen?
Oh Jeeze...
Terrible stuff.
Can’t the government study this mess and implement mitigation programs?
Thermodynamics, how does it work!?
Spot on there.
And I love “idiotic environmentalism”. I’ve been watching it since the Carter Administration.
“I couldn’t breathe!”
Were your hands up? That might have been the key.
Then, what makes the car move? I am lost here....
(I’m not endorsing their view, necessarily, but it gives some insight)
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/533186/forget-hydrogen-cars-and-buy-a-hybrid/
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