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Funny comparison. If you like batteries, fuel cell tech would be one of the places you would want to be putting some of your primary research money.
by starbeast 8y ago
Funny comparison. If you like batteries, fuel cell tech would be one of the places you would want to be putting some of your primary research money.
- NoblePublius 8y agoThere is no naturally occurring source of hydrogen. That’s why you see ads for HFC from Shell and Chevron. Hydrogen must be made from oil or gas. Salt water electrolysis doesn’t really work at scale as it requires even more oil and gas. Even if you do SWE with renewable energy, it’s about 22x less efficient than putting the electricity in a battery. We have fusion. It’s in the sky. We don’t need it on earth.
- starbeast 8y agoI'm talking about fully reversible fuel cells for grid storage, not a hydrogen fuels economy. So this kind of thing - https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/03/f11/rev_fc_wkshp_anderson.pdf https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/03/f11/rev_fc_w...