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by jimswhims
760 days ago
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FYI There was a good related article shared here recently https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40290447 It's irritating that many of the people who resist EV adoption because "it won't work, there's not enough chargers" seem to be more amenable to the idea of hydrogen, despite all the extra infrastructure/energy needed for production, cooling and transport, when electrical infrastructure is already ubiquitous. I don't know if it's that people are more conditioned to the idea of putting liquid in a tank to power a vehicle than plugging it in. Nothing against hydrogen per se, I'm sure it'll have its uses, but electricity has a much shorter lead time to take up the current energy deficit from cutting fossil fuels. Coal vs. nuclear is the other major head-scratcher, but I guess that's down to the green movement's own lack of awareness of the severity of global warming back when they were campaigning against nuclear. |
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> Japan currently imports a lot of LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) on big ships. They can’t use dirty natural gas forever - but they will still need to import some energy. Thus, they are placing bets that they will be able to import hydrogen and ammonia in the future. They've made some strong policy decisions to this effect. Korea and other smaller Asian countries aren't far behind.