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submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

I wish I got to do fun little projects like this at my job. Anyway, this proof of concept shows that hydrogen would be a great alternative to propane and natural gas for cooking. Hat tip to @[email protected].

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[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago

I think the experts who believes in this technology know a bit more than you and me who only read a few wiki pages.

If money is going into this, they also have a believable plan. But big oil certainly want you to think otherwise.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Huh? It's big oil and the like who are pushing hydrogen over electricity.

And the problem with hydrogen is largely to do with the laws of physics, so it's unlikely to change soon.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

I don't understand this suspicion. It's easier to burn fossil fuels for electricity than to reform them into hydrogen.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Well yeah but they know their days of selling that are numbered, at least for lots of markets. If they can get people onto hydrogen they've got more money coming in for decades.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Their days aren't numbered until governments actually say so. In the meantime, non-GHG emitting sources supply less than half of the world's electricity as is, nevermind the hypothetical demand of a predominantly electrified vehicle fleet.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Governments and markets are saying so.

[-] JohnDClay 1 points 1 week ago

But they can still sell hydrogen, they can't really sell solar panels. Even encouraging people to keep burning things (like hydrogen) benefits gas since it slows down electric alternatives to gas heating.

[-] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

They don't have to sell hydrogen or solar panels. They'll just keep selling fuel to power plants.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

That’s an appeal to authority fallacy if I’ve ever seen one.

They’re doing proof of concepts, not mass production. They’re at best answering is it possible, not is it a viable alternative.

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