- 𝗧𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 *𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 ( @toaster@slrpnk.net ) English34•28 days ago
Hear me out, so we make a ton of hydrogen for cars, heating, etc. But it takes lots of methane to make hydrogen. So we give oil companies subsidies so they can do more fracking which is how we get the methane in the first place. This will be great for climat cha—wait a minute…
- Sonori ( @sonori@beehaw.org ) 14•28 days ago
It’s ok because after we have already fully transitioned the grid to renewables, batteries, and pumped hydro in twenty or thirty years, we’ll then be so good at making renewable electricity that we won’t mind using a process that throws half of it away, all so that we can keep going to gas stations instead of just getting electricity delivered to our homes.
Being able to fill up your car in 5 minutes instead of 18 during your occasional road trip is definitely going to win out over being able to fill up at home for a tenth the cost, and people will want to burn hydrogen for heating even though it would be a lot cheaper and more energy efficient to use it in even a basic diesel generator to power a heat pump, because people just love throwing their money away so that the poor oil companies can still have a growing business and it’s not like their is an easy and 98% percent efficient way to deliver power to people’s homes, that would just be ridiculous.
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 1•27 days ago
Well, there’s the whole other conspiracy to this… Cars wouldn’t need 18 minutes to recharge, or even 5… even 1 really…
- (⬤ᴥ⬤) ( @nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•27 days ago
in my ignorance i assumed that we got hydrogen from electrolysis or something
- psud ( @psud@aussie.zone ) 2•24 days ago
That’s really expensive compared to fracking. It’s reasonable to assume that any hydrogen project is going to use fossil hydrogen
- dillekant ( @dillekant@slrpnk.net ) 15•27 days ago
Treating Hydrogen as a fuel is a problem, but it’s an OK storage medium. Putting it next to Bromine or whatever is fine. I think people using it for flight or trucking is a good outcome overall, but yeah unfortunately the oil companies basically ruin all the good things.
- AbsentBird ( @absentbird@lemm.ee ) English2•27 days ago
Yeah, or maybe for moving container ships. It’s not quite as energy dense as the heavy fuels they’re currently burning, but its only emissions are water vapor, and if we keep building renewable power generation there will be times of negative power prices where producing hydrogen with the excess will make a lot more sense.
- I'm back on my BS 🤪 ( @BackOnMyBS@lemmy.autism.place ) English1•27 days ago
how to ghost someone on Lemmy?
- averyminya ( @averyminya@beehaw.org ) 1•27 days ago
Block the user, maybe even the instance. What if they’re the owner?
- Comment105 ( @Comment105@lemm.ee ) 1•26 days ago
block block block block block block block
- Fortatech ( @Fortatech@gregtech.eu ) 8•28 days ago
Erm, actually…
- Scroll Responsibly ( @scroll_responsibly@lemmy.sdf.org ) 5•28 days ago
I believe in both hydrogen and nuclear power… it’s called the sun
- Smorty [she/her] ( @Smorty@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 3•27 days ago
Hear me out, if we somehow had infinite energy and need that stuff for rockets, it’s a reasonable exchange. Not for cars though. Just use E cars, they’re way more efficient.
- HEXN3T ( @HEXN3T@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•28 days ago
Smells like glass… and Davinci…