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Toyota's portable hydrogen cartridges look like giant AA batteries – and could spell the end of lengthy EV charging (www.techradar.com)

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Hydrogen was never and will never be a viable and efficient transportation fuel

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Special exception maybe for aviation and rocketry. But even then, methane (if made using green energy and the Sebatier process).

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can get comparable isp with methalox engines without any of the weight required to keep the hydrogen inside the rocket, right?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Hydrogen ISP is still king by a significant margin, but ISP isn't the whole story -- hydrogen comes with additional tank weight (due to lower density) and storage issues (pesky molecular size...). So that trade-off for ISP only really makes sense for an upper stage like Centaur. I'm not sure it makes sense for New Shepherd even...

[–] CluckN 4 points 2 months ago

Pshh you haven’t seen the peaks of blimp technology. On May 6th when they launch the Hindenburg we’ll see who gets the last laugh.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why do you think that? The fuel production side or the fuel consumption side?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Production, consumption, electrolyzer efficiency limits and capital cost, storage problems, fueling problems, transportation problems, pretty much every aspect of this stuff makes it terrible for use as a vehicle fuel. All green hydrogen efforts should be focused on fertilizer production before anything else.