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by _hypx 4y ago
The idea of synfuels, which is what this is, is not new. Many companies are pursuing this idea. Including Porsche: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/06/porsche-taking-stake-in-e-fu... There are two challenges to t
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by _hypx 4y ago
If you are just talking about hydrogen piping, the velocity of hydrogen flow is faster than natural gas. It becomes very similar in terms of flow rate for a given diameter of pipe.
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by _hypx 4y ago
Renewable electricity will be nearly free. It makes the argument in favor of hydrogen nearly overwhelming.
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by _hypx 4y ago
Hydrogen will be the future of cars. It is the only one that is sustainable. EVs are themselves the result of massive government subsidies and legal mandates. It is very likely a failed product without those market distortions as very few p
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by _hypx 4y ago
That is utterly wrong. Hydrogen storage and piping would be vastly cheaper than thermal storage in huge heat banks. In particular, you would store the hydrogen underground. Very few proposals are suggesting otherwise. Piping hydrogen woul
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by _hypx 4y ago
It is the main path people have projected for seasonal energy storage. In fact, there are no other alternatives as far as we know. The "skeptics" have a very limited understanding of what they're talking about.
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by _hypx 5y ago
"Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." - Irving Fisher https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/stock-market-cr... Be careful proclaiming that a bubble can't burst. T
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Samsung, Seaborg partnership on floating nuclear reactors(world-nuclear-news.org)
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by _hypx 5y ago
Acid3 test itself is pretty old though. There are now stuff that it doesn't cover. I think people should come up with an Acid4 test for that.
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by _hypx 5y ago
Methane is a potent greenhouse gas. It's possible that airliners aren't interested in a fuel that won't fully solve the problem.
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by _hypx 5y ago
I would prefer a new version of USB that guarantees total compatibility with all devices. It's very annoying to realize that your charging USB-C cable is not capable of 10Gbps, or that your 10Gbps cable cannot support 100W charging.
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by _hypx 5y ago
Tanks are turning into a weapon that can only be used in special cases. It's likely that drones will replace tanks as the most important attack weapon on the battlefield.
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by _hypx 5y ago
We will. The obsession with EVs won't last forever, especially given the finite supply of battery related metals.
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by _hypx 5y ago
Hydrogen cars can be powered by combustion engines.
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by _hypx 5y ago
You need close to 100% vaccination rates for vaccines to really work. Not so much for creating a makeshift army. This is an example of framing of the issue, and in this case it is deeply misleading. Nearly everyone wants what makes us safe.
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by _hypx 5y ago
The numbers regarding defensive gun use is very likely to end up being a classic example of commercial interests affect scientific research. Nearly all of the high numbers come from a handful of sources that have connections with the firear
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by _hypx 5y ago
I get the feeling you have that problem in reverse. All defensive gun use is very rare. Certainly, rarer than the opposite (offensive gun use). Combined with suicide risk and accidental deaths or injuries, it is rarely justifiable. Study on
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by _hypx 5y ago
The danger of owning a firearm, especially if it is always armed for such an occurrence, is more dangerous to the household than the risk of home invasion (which again, is rare). It is an idea that people defend using the concept of "s
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by _hypx 5y ago
You're trying to rationalize the situation in the US, not looking at it objectively. You can quickly train people to use a firearm, including long before fighting starts. You will need to store a vast amount of military equipment anywa
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by _hypx 5y ago
Home invasion means forcefully breaking into someone's house where there are people in it. It's very different than a burglary. Burglaries are common, but the former is rare.
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by _hypx 5y ago
It's not that hard to arm a society when war breaks out. That is the same mentality that countries like Switzerland has. The "2A argument" is quite a bit different, and has very few similarities with what is going on at the s
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by _hypx 5y ago
Only Murphy’s Law is truly eternal. Moore’s Law will end sooner or later. Most the rest are just common trends that can be summed up with “software is hard and takes a long time to develop” or “large organizations tend to be inefficient or
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by _hypx 5y ago
There’s limit to everything. At some point, there won’t be any more markets for Apple to grow into. Plus the danger of spreading oneself too thin, ultimately leading to less focused product development.
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by _hypx 5y ago
It takes ~1.33 kWh to make 1 kWh of hydrogen.
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by _hypx 5y ago
It's already happening: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/cp-to-buil... You're just outdated on your info.
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by _hypx 5y ago
Other companies are buying hydrogen locomotives: https://www.trains.com/trn/news-reviews/news-wire/cp-to-buil...
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by _hypx 5y ago
You'd run into two problems: The first is that all materials begins to behave like fluids under enough pressure. The second is that your giant heap of material will have its own gravitation pull. By the time you're talking space e
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by _hypx 5y ago
Web3 or whatever should've been based around the concepts present in BitTorrent, not crypto.
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by _hypx 5y ago
It’s a modified Lexus in the end. It’s not optimized. If well designed you’ll get more room and range compared to a similar EV. The Hyundai Nexo is an example. Also, not every EV has a frunk, like the EQS.
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by _hypx 5y ago
Even with everything included, that's still 600 Wh/kg or so. BTW, an EV with everything included really only has around 140-160 Wh/kg. It's still far short of what hydrogen can do. The Mirai also stores around 186 kWh of

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