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70 points

Hydrogen is a dead end. Always has been. But a bunch of people are stuck with sunk costs now.

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19 points

Its just not aiming for the right markets. Its perfect for replacing heavy fuel user where fueling up is already restricted to limited locations like diesel generator trains, massive 18 wheelers and boats, but not for individual car market.

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10 points

And any number of industrial processes. It’s great for smelting steel from ore, for example.

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2 points

Or injecting into natural gas. Up to 10% hydrogen is generally tolerated.

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1 point

Hydrogen is already in development in commercial vehicles.

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2 points

It’s already in production in industrial vehicles such as fork lifts.

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12 points

It would’ve been a great transition from fossil fuel, had we embraced it before EV tech was consumer ready. Now it’s just a step backward.

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18 points
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Hydrogen was never and will never be a viable and efficient transportation fuel

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11 points

Special exception maybe for aviation and rocketry. But even then, methane (if made using green energy and the Sebatier process).

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4 points

Pshh you haven’t seen the peaks of blimp technology. On May 6th when they launch the Hindenburg we’ll see who gets the last laugh.

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1 point

Why do you think that? The fuel production side or the fuel consumption side?

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6 points

Honestly, this is probably the best utility out of FCEB I’ve seen so far. It was always a dead-end for cars, but for short-term portable uses, this is great. There’s actually a HUGE industry around portable butane that could be replaced with something like this.

Recreational, Construction, Culinary, Aviation…imagine replacing all of that with this as a solution, and you’ve got something. We’d obviously need to see some specs to see if it’s possible. It’s not going to make as much money as millions of cars on the road, but perhaps useful enough it will get uptake.

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Including culinary in there doesn’t help your cause.

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