On 15/08/2019 13:15, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 15/08/2019 13:07, John Rumm wrote:
On 15/08/2019 11:20, Andy Burns wrote:
John Rumm wrote:

They are used to a world where you stop at a petrol station, spend 5
mins refuelling and get another 300 miles of range or better. That
is an experience that fuel cell systems could match with appropriate
infrastructure.

Yes, but with only 11 hydrogen stations in the UK, I doubt many will
be queuing-up to buy a mirai ...

Hence the comment about appropriate infrastructure. It would only take
one oil company to get behind it and deploy at a proportion of their
existing filling stations for that situation to change dramatically.
One may decide its a way for them to stay relevant and part of the
supply chain in an electric driven future.

Why on earth would they do that?

They are primary energy companies.

Kind of meaningless in the context, and especially if you are going to
move away from burning primary fuels in cars.

Hydrogen is secondary energy, and its a bitch to handle

At one time so was petrol, and so is spent uranium. That does not mean
the problems are unsolvable.

=- weher are
they goiung to buy it from amyway?

I would expect them to make it.

Its the same as a battery. You need primary energy to charge your
hydrogen tanks.

Of course.

Probably by electrolysing water using grid electricity from coaal and
gat power staions.

In many cases, sure. Same as that used to charge your BEV.




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Cheers,

John.

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