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> Current diesel engines can be retrofitted to burn a mix of diesel and hydrogen that reduces emissions by 86%. There is a large gulf between something that ha
by _aavaa_ 3y ago
> Current diesel engines can be retrofitted to burn a mix of diesel and hydrogen that reduces emissions by 86%.
There is a large gulf between something that has worked in a research lab once and something that is ready to be commercialized and ready to be implemented in a working ship.
Further, unless they have a way of producing carbon-free hydrogen at all the ports that this ship would have to dock at, then it won't be saving us CO2 emissions.
- credit_guy 3y ago> There is a large gulf between something that has worked in a research lab once and something that is ready to be commercialized and ready to be implemented in a working ship. Your point is correct generally speaking. But here we are comparing modifying a combustion engine to make it burn hydrogen, versus modifying a ship to make it run on nuclear power. Which gap do you think is wider?
- _aavaa_ 3y agoGiven that there already exist many military ships running on nuclear reactors, the gap for one is smaller than you imply.