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by oconnore 1418 days ago
The new tanks are fiber wrapped composite, not steel.
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But ignoring this, allows the anti-h2 crowd to continue to deride h2 tech.

The heart of this often claims that h2 is polluting, based upon the fact that currently, we source a lot of h2 from Ng.

Of course this disregards that electricity is often derived from dirty sources too, meaning, all the same arguments should be levied against battery based power sources too.

What we need, is to get non polluting engine/point of use tech out there, asap! And h2 is the only tech which provides the range, due to refueling speed, to replace many applications.

Without end of use clean tech, we have zero hope.

Any environmentalist should be happy, joyful, exuberant with h2.

Sadly, endless division exists.

Sounds plausible. Is the idea to build pipes out of the same stuff? Might be worth mentioning that fibre composite essentially means epoxy with fibres in, which is not necessarily environmentally superb in the thousands of miles of pipes format.

Wonder how people will deal with burying very stiff pipes without them breaking when the ground moves. Maybe sections with rubber joints, though the joints would leak.