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I'm so sure Toyoda's doing some 4D chess move here, given world's increasing renewable energy meant there's going to be demand for energy absorption at will and
by alliao 4y ago
I'm so sure Toyoda's doing some 4D chess move here, given world's increasing renewable energy meant there's going to be demand for energy absorption at will and hydrogen is their answer to help managing the renewable grid.
During the height of renewable energy production the cost of energy would probably even drop to negative, and hydrogen no matter how inefficient can still "regen" it into hydrogen. and the rest is just pricing and betterment of technology.
extremely ambitious but if anyone can pull it off it'd be them.
- thehappypm 4y agoI still doubt it because if electricity goes negative you would be far better off storing that energy in a battery which has almost no losses.
- mertd 4y agoThere is no 4D chess. Toyota is the new Research in Motion, pointing at the iPhone and saying "but it doesn't have a keyboard!!".
- max51 4y ago> and hydrogen is their answer to help managing the renewable grid. All of the hydrogen right now used for vehicle comes from the oil&gas industry. It costs over an order of magnitude more to extract it from water. The worst part is that even at the current rates at the pump, it's hard to justify using hydrogen over batteries. If lithium batteries didn't exist, it may have been a good path for the long term future. In reality, it's only gonna be viable for very specific industrial use cases.
- lambda_dn 4y agoMore like tiddlywinks.