Electric Cars are not ready to replace gas-powered cars.
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Ya know I never thought about that part on hydrogen. Yea I can imagine that there would be some threshold where you would save energy in transportation if you used pipelines. Unless I suppose you were in close proximity to the power plant. But yea a lot of power is moved over hundreds of miles and a lot of energy is wasted. More than 50% in some cases. I can imagine that a way to pipe it and store it couldn't be all that different than say natural gas, or propane, except you can't pressurize it into liquid form. To me that would probably be the biggest hindrance to making say a hydrogen car. You would need a pretty huge tank to go all that far, whereas using something like propane can be condensed to something small.
Yeah, and they made test cars like a decade ago. One was a standard 4 door sedan compact car that pretty much the whole trunk was a large medium pressure tank. It would travel like 200 miles, I think, on one tank.
The last thing I saw a while back was that they were having problems with the fuel cell themselves. They wore out too fast and required a lot of weird chemicals and metal to make which created waste and supply bottlenecks.
So instead we make wasteful batteries out of rare metals? Get it. They either stopped looking for solutions to fuel cell problems or they already found some and buried them in a bottomless pit. Why? Because it would set us free FROM THEM.
Two decades ago hydrogen was all the rage. It was to be the new thing to solve all our problems. Now its a forbidden topic. Hardly anyone talks about it. Why?
One other thing... you could setup solar panels in a desert in the middle of nowhere. Condense water from the air, electrolysis it into hydrogen and oxygen, store the hydrogen, and along comes some rando lost in the middle of nowhere. Guess what... he can top off his car before he keeps driving.
Hydrogen solves like half the problems of wind, solar etc because it gives you a stable way to store that electricity that is scalable to massive shit-tons or just a little bit. If it is a lot you liquefy it. If its not much then you make a huge tank like a propane tank and lightly compress it. Because you can have storage tanks at every level of distribution it doesn't matter that wind and solar are unreliable or intermittent. You just make sure you top off the tanks before you start using it. As long as the supply overall is enough to meet demand no one ever runs out. No brown out bullshit.
And yes using liquid hydrogen directly as fuel would be like a military/industrial thing. Stuff like a train might use that, but for everyday people it would be too dangerous.
Notice that if you have enough solar, wind, and micro hydro of your own you could have a hydrogen generation plant of your own with a few large tanks and POOF you have cut the strings from your masters. If you had satellite internet then you are completely 100% off grid. You even have fuel for your own car/tractor etc.