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Electrolysis powered by nuclear energy seems very clean and green to me. With the added benefit of not requiring an overhaul of the electrical grid to be able
by MerelyMortal 4y ago
Electrolysis powered by nuclear energy seems very clean and green to me.
With the added benefit of not requiring an overhaul of the electrical grid to be able to handle everyone charging their cars.
- smileysteve 4y agoInstead of overhauling the electrical grid, gas stations just have to maintain cryogenic pressure tanks?
- smaudet 4y agoExactly, my money would be on an inert storage format - if you could mass produce hydrogen and keep it around safely inert (with low energy cost to convert it back), EVs would be beat so bad in the long run it wouldn't even be funny... EVs are nice in short term but battery issues like these illustrate their (should be obvious) shortcomings. WRT to this battery technology, ironically the same sector being targeted by hydrogen might benefit, i.e. rail tech - if you stick a high number of cheap batteries onto a large, heavy motorcar, the energy differential is almost negligible as you make up for it in part through momentum, but also just scale (more passengers transported per watt, more charge available per trip).
- nl 4y agoIf you are doing electrolysis then solar/wind is a much better option than nuclear. Much lower up front investment and none of the huge downsides of nuclear.
- freemint 4y agoIt might be green jut it is super expensive and not very green for the decade it takes to build a plant.
- MerelyMortal 4y agoAs opposed to how green it is to build a solar or wind farm?
- fomine3 4y agoProducing hydrogen directly from nuclear plant is being developed. https://www.iaea.org/topics/non-electric-applications/nuclear-hydrogen-production https://www.iaea.org/topics/non-electric-applications/nuclea...