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[–]Chop_Chop[S] 6 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 4 fun -  (5 children)

I think fully electric, solar rechargeable is gonna take over in 10 years. Hydrogen is too heavy to store and dangerous.

Any idea what to do with mountains of dead batteries? It is not cost effective to recycle Li-ion batteries in 2020. Also figure in the cost to replace them. Hydrogen is not heavy to store compared to batteries. When you pass a propane truck or a propane gas company with 1,000 gallon tanks do you think Propane is dangerous? Hydrogen is safer than propane.

H2 is a much better storage method than Li-ion. The cause of the explosion below has not been identified yet, over a year later.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gENQYrlFfPs

Battery Bus Joke
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jV7AweTDKs

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADS742xsoTw Plus, there's constant research for new tech upgrading Li-ion, or some completely different storage.

I've seen videos of physicists working with h2 in labs say its the most dangerous gas ever as far as instability and the magnitude of damage that it could result in.

How sure are you in your claims?

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 4 fun4 insightful - 3 fun5 insightful - 4 fun -  (3 children)

Good video. I love Cold Fusion.

I'm with Chop_Chop and have been saying for decades hydrogen could easily swap out our other fuel paradigm, which to be honest I'm not a fan of centralized fuel and our dependence on Big Oil. Doesn't mean we couldn't generate our own hydrogen though - like how we made bio-diesel in our Oakland warehouse in 2005.

Further, to generate the hydrogen you could burn all the fossil fuels, plus trash, etc in a central place and scrub it all to heck more efficiently in order to get all the potential pollution than what would have been decentralized by the millions of vehicles using it.

On the other hand I'm excited for graphene batteries.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=graphene+batteries

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

They are not really Graphene batteries per se , but Graphene is gonna be used as coating on X-ion batteries as well as maybe some other elements too to improve efficiency, speed of charging and durability, dramatically. :) Hydrogen would have been nice to have in cars 20 some years ago, now the cat is out of the bag with Tesla mainly.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

I would love to see hybrid options. I know that the Aptera meant for some models to have fuel generators for long distance, and rather than driving the car, the provided electricity. Man I wish they'd become a thing. I suspect they were intentionally mismanaged and driven into the ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptera_Motors

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Aptera

[–]kokolokoNightcrawler 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)