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[โ€“] [email protected] -4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (9 children)

Article sponsored by battery producers. Or certainly looks this way.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (7 children)

What makes you think so, or do you say that based on the content alone? I don't have the impression they are pro-battery or against hydrogen, also don't think they would let themselves be paid without mentioning someone did that.

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I was sarcastic, now added s.

Truth to be told I am fed up with the industry pushing electric batteries simply because they already invested in them. We don't have enough raw materials to convert all the cars to battery powered, nevermind the range issues. Hydrogen is the way forward.

[โ€“] taladar 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hydrogen is an absolute pain to store and transport and all the practical hydrogen production methods are dirty right now. It just isn't even a real option even after years of development.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

all the practical hydrogen production methods are dirty right now

Complete rubbish. Hydrogen is being produced using electricity - you know, like charging batteries.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That'd be green hydrogen. Gray or blue hydrogen, both sourced from methane, is not produced using electricity.

Green hydrogen is practically speaking not cost-effective with current production parameters, and as such, gray and blue rules the day. Hence, hydrogen is effectively just another form of fossil fuel for the time being.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The fossil fuel industry pushes the hydrogen fairy tale partly because they're the ones who can produce and profit at scale from hydrogen and partly because no one can actually switch to hydrogen for a goodly while yet.

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