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What's the next part where the price will go through the roof?
Sesman:
Not sure we are anywhere near reality…yet.
Sesman:
Heat pumps, now that’s something I evidentially know something about. I certainly wouldn’t entertain one….until I have to.🤔
Oddjob:
No one seems to have mentioned Hydrogen power. Getting a motorcycle tank to accept Hydrogen may be an easier solution than electric. Plus Hydrogen is an non exhaustible solution, so long as there is water there is Hydrogen.
Sesman:
Yes, hydrogen is being used very effectively, being heavily promoted in some sectors for embedded generation. The emergence of the net carbon zero programme, I suspect it will raise its profile further.
The big issue with hydrogen is production and transport….it’s mostly used on the site of production for that reason alone.
royhall:
Hindenberg.
Plus it takes more energy to produce the hydrogen than is in the hydrogen. Good idea to use surplus wind power to make hydrogen on offshore rigs next to the wind farms as a sort of battery, but not really mass production. Unlikely to ever make it to personal transport more chance of use for HGV etc.
Don't forget that all these wonder solutions also have a carbon footprint that needs to be taken into account. Absolutely nothing about any form of energy is green, this is the problem. The manufacture of new machinery of all sorts produces huge amounts of carbon.
But don't worry about petrol for our classics, it will still be around long after most of us are gone. Strangely Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe but combines so easily with other elements that it rarely occurs naturally in a usable form. Again a carbon footprint to get at it.
A million great ideas and not one of them is feasible in the real world. They know GW cannot be stopped, due to massive population explosion. Transport is just a small section of the problem. They really and quickly need to get a grip on the real causes of GW and cut the bullshit.
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