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Counterpoint, there is an argument to be made for Hydrogen-fueled IC engines. Massive investment in nuclear does not solve the issue with lithium required for b
by slackfan 4y ago
Counterpoint, there is an argument to be made for Hydrogen-fueled IC engines. Massive investment in nuclear does not solve the issue with lithium required for batteries (nevermind the environmental impact of such).
I seem to recall Mazda doing a thing around their RX-8 with dual-fueling, but that went nowhere a decade and a half ago.
But hey, why go for a significantly cheaper from a cap-ex perspective option where retrofititng existing vehicles to hydrogen (which can be done), and developing that tech, instead dumping more cash into rare earth development and going about hydrogen power in the most asinine way possible, because somebody is gonna get (more) rich off of doing this.
- rgmerk 4y agoYeah, in theory you can run existing vehicles off hydrogen, but hydrogen internal combustion engines have, thus far, sucked. BMW tried this with a hydrogen-fuelled 7 series V12 back in the mid 2000s. They could only get about 150 horsepower out of that massive V12. They got well over 400 out of the original gasoline version of the engine. As for lithium, I’m old enough to remember when many were convinced Peak Oil was going to be a Big Problem.
- slackfan 4y agoMazda got about 80% power in their rotaries, so they got a ~110-120 hp out of their 160-180hp rotaries. Seems like a BMW problem.
- defrost 4y agoPeak Oil itself (which has almost certainly been reached) was never going to be the problem .. it's the downhill run that follows, and there's every reason to think that will bring problems and conflict, all the more reason to shift to non fossil fuels. For interest; Predicting the timing of peak oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_peak_oil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicting_the_timing_of_peak_...