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Sure, I agree with you, it seems unlikely that fuel cell tech will overtake advances in batteries in the near future, and that compressed hydrogen doesn’t seem
by rsfern 6y ago
Sure, I agree with you, it seems unlikely that fuel cell tech will overtake advances in batteries in the near future, and that compressed hydrogen doesn’t seem likely to become competitive.
My point is that there are many other hydrogen generation and storage technologies at various degrees of maturity and viability, and it doesn’t seem productive to write off a potential economical fuel cell system as a physical impossibility.
I do think there are many challenging engineering problems along that path, and I’m not convinced it’s tractable at all, much less likely to outpace advances in battery systems.
- Hypx 6y ago> I do think there are many challenging engineering problems along that path, and I’m not convinced it’s tractable at all, much less likely to outpace advances in battery systems. I disagree on that last part. Fuel cell is moving at warp speed right now, and batteries are losing ground at a rapid rate. We're seeing fuel cells move into everything from e-bikes to aircraft. If there's any kind of disruptive event here, it will be fuel cells replacing batteries at a much faster rate than expected.