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And where are you gonna get the hydrogen from? You have any idea how power inefficient electrolysis is!?
Because solar is free?
Guys, we can stop trying to solve climate change, we already have free energy!
Jesus, of course it's not free. Solar panels are not free, the land you put ten on is not free, construction is not free and the infrastructure needed to supply energy during the nigh (storage or another source of energy) is not free. How is this not obvious?
WTF are you talking about? So solar if free because 'solar hydrogen'? You're not making any sense.
You don't seem to understand that the only thing solar energy does for free is to heat the ground which is kind of useless for moving cars,
Yes, because the hydrogen just appears there. No machinery needed. It just forms pushes cars. For free. Amazing!
Yep, that's what you've been saying. Solar generates hydrogen for free. Just like that. You just park you car in the sun and it moves. Unlike a supercharger which has to be build hydrogen is just there. No buildings needed. Exactly what you said. Word for word.
Except it's you that keeps writing stupid shit like "solar is free".
Yeah, coal is also free. I just lays there in the ground. It doesn't cost any money to make it. Obviously you need infrastructure to mine it and burn it but other than that it's free. Right?
Yes, I'm happy you're starting to understand. It's the same as with solar. It just shines on cars and they drive. You don't need to build anything like panels or hydrogen storage or pipes to move it. It's simply free energy. Like coal.
Yes. Do you have any idea how much energy we're wasting because nuclear power plants produce way more than we need because they can't scale easily or that most green energy generation is at the time people don't actually need it? Hydrogen is a prefect storage solution for that power.
Not really. Since grid storage doesn't have the same weight limits as EVs, there are a hundred different viable technologies. Everything from flow batteries, to flywheels, to pumping water uphill. Hydrogen fits in there, but it's not likely to be widespread.