recently that the industry should look at the turmoil caused when Russia decided to shut off methane supplies to Europe. The result is chaos — soaring electricity prices, people freezing in their homes, factories unable to produce goods because of energy restrictions, and the like.
He’s not wrong. Weren’t we all taught as children not put all our eggs in one basket? Shouldn’t Russia’s decision to use energy as a political weapon be a warning to us all?have been energetic cheerleaders for the EV revolution. We tend to look askance at fuel cells and with good reason. Elon Musk told us years ago that they are nothing more than “fool cells” because there are so many conversions necessary to create the hydrogen that then has to be converted back to electricity.
Right now, we have almost more solar energy than we need during the height of the day. In fact, much of it gets wasted because it can’t be put to use right away. Many believe that excess energy should be used to make green hydrogen, which will serve as a form of battery itself.
If I was as behind as they are, I'd also try as hell to get public funding too (aka H2 subsidies...).
Kinda thought from the headline they were pushing alternate battery chemistries, but fuel cell is cool too in the places it makes sense (hevy industry, trucking, shipping, etc)
The US will be fine.
There remains only one clea way to make hydrogen - USING ELECTRICITY. The physics says you can't break the H2O bonds without using more input energy than the resultant fuel will yield. This is no more possible than a perpetual motion machine. Period. Nuclear might be viable...
This doesn’t really make sense, we have gas cars until there’s enough batteries… why a third tech that’s isn’t as good as either? Just as Europe is using more coal this winter so we will too use gas cars during battery shortages as we transition to EV’s.