Posted on 01/22/2024 6:15:41 AM PST by Red Badger
If the just added a few carbon atoms to that hydrogen...................
Two very different meanings of the word. In race cars, "fuel cell" refers to a container for liquid hydrocarbon fuels, which is designed to minimize spillage in a high speed crash.
Here, we're talking about a device that combines hydrogen, oxygen, and a catalyst to produce electric current (and heat) without an open flame.
Yeah ... That would be easier. You can get that stuff out of the ground. A bit of distillation, and you’re good to go.
“Airbus’s answer to the growing demand [On the part of about .0001 of the population] for sustainable aviation technologies.”
The left has found out that capitalists will do its bidding if enough money is waved in front of them... and a threat or two.
“The four concepts that Airbus proposed back in 2020 will pursue either hydrogen combustion or hydrogen fuel cell technology. The latter will be used on a fully electric aircraft type and will be the one tested on the A380 demonstrator.”
Okay, I’ve actually read the whole article now. My bad.
Bring on the Hindenburg v.2!
Just wait for that pilot to decide to do its nails and opens the acetone based nail polish remover.
No worries ...
First time I saw “fuel cell” in the race car context, I had a serious “WTF???” moment.
The first airplane will be called the Hindenburg.
LOL!
Hydrogen - it’s what made the Hindenburg great.
In WA, they are using our local coal fired plant to make and test hydrogen production. Funded by $.50 a gallon tax on gas, and will switch to hydro power after a bit, to produce it.
How much legacy fuel does it take to get the equal amount of energy potential out of hydrogen? If I remember right, 3 gallons of diesel to make 1 gallon of hydrogen. In short, it is a source of more pollution. Like ethanol, it takes 1.5 gallons of diesel to produce 1 gallon of ethanol, and you get worse mileage with it. Plus the millions of gallons pumped from aquifers for watering corn, and producing alchohol/ethanol.
“Water
Electrolysis
Electricity
Power Plant
Natural Gas, Coal.......
All of the above cause some “e,” to produce Hydrogen.
So are we kidding ourselves like the EVs?
I shan’t vouch for the actual numbers, but all the reading I have done nears to yours. Hydrogen — as a fuel — costs more than the other fuels used to produce it, and it is of course highly unstable and expensive to store and “pipe.” Hydrogen is neither “green” nor blue” thought the language used to flummox the public is both green and blue and, in the moment, fully Marxist red....
Precisely, my FRiend, and nicely stated.
(I might just 'borrow' the observation, heh heh heh.)
Go ahead. I borrowed it from someone else.
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