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We will always need a portable liquid fuel to meet needs like emergency vehicles, construction equipment, and emergency generators. Not everything is a consume
by dsl 5y ago
We will always need a portable liquid fuel to meet needs like emergency vehicles, construction equipment, and emergency generators.
Not everything is a consumer car and truck. Being a battery maximalist prolongs the time everything else runs on dead dinosaurs.
- jeffbee 5y agoWhy can't that stuff just remain diesel? We can synthesize it, no problem.
- panick21_ 5y agoAs I said, 1%. And in those cases using hydrogen makes little sense. Emergency vehicles of most types don't need that however. And in many of the cases you mention swappable battery packs are an option as well. But we have to realize that compared to all consumer and fleet cars, 99% of all trucking is the vast majority of fuel use in transportation. Extreme long range trucking is the exception. In most cases you would make the hydrogen into methanol and you can keep mostly the same engines.
- fmajid 5y agoMost hydrogen is produced from methane and is actually worse than gasoline for global warming because methane leaks and is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. It makes indeed more sense to just use renewable gasoline, e.g. using the Fischer-Tropsch process like VW's eFuel.
- panick21_ 5y agoI know, but its easier to go from renewable hydrogen to methanol then eFuel.