Posted on 07/02/2024 12:32:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
I thought that was supposed to be impossible
Nikola is in my neighborhood in South Mountain, Phoenix. They have been struggling, so I hope they pull it off.
Can’t trust what EV salesmen and buyers say.
Will collision be more dramatic than an EV of similar size.
Just to cover all scenarios they need to crash one each into each other to see what happens.
Can anyone tell us how much energy was expended to create, concentrate and store the hydrogen gas that fuels this vehicle
Hydrogen fires burn off quickly and tend to go up instead of outwards...............
“Everything is impossible until someone does it.” - Robert Heinlein.............
Sounds like a BLAST!
I hope they screen out the underqualified illegal alien drivers...
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE), also known as hydrogen-assisted cracking or hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC), is a reduction in the ductility of a metal due to absorbed hydrogen. Hydrogen atoms are small and can permeate solid metals. Once absorbed, hydrogen lowers the stress required for cracks in the metal to initiate and propagate, resulting in embrittlement. Hydrogen embrittlement occurs most notably in steels, as well as in iron, nickel, titanium, cobalt, and their alloys. Copper, aluminium, and stainless steels are less susceptible to hydrogen embrittlement.
I love that quote. Heinlein was a genius and the world is poorer with his absence.
I used to work with a guy who escaped from their company and he said it was a TERRIBLE mess inside. (And he jumped to Atlis who was going to make an electric pickup truck, err electric batteries, err battery chargers.) So more or less out of the frying pan and into the fire.
>> Walmart has reportedly deployed its first hydrogen fuel cell-powered Nikola Tre semi truck
Can Harbor Freight hydrogen fuel cells be far behind?
What could go wrong? :-)
>> hydrogen likes to leak out through materials
Would that be the case when liquified, moving through a channel, and then finally expanded into the combustion chamber?
To be sold exclusively at WalMart!................
That I don’t know. Keeping hydrogen liquid is it cheap and could be a problem if you park your car for a day and energy has to be used to cool the liquid hydrogen.
Now maybe Fuel Cell (FCEL) will be noticed by invisible contributors (ICs) to members of Congress in the payoff scheme lnown as “Here, buy this!” and waiting until the public jumps on the stock and the IC tells the Congress member, “okay, time to sell that!”
I don’t see this being feasible. Is it just one truck? I guess as large as Walmart is it’s practical to try it out with just one truck to see if it’s better or worse than diesel. Plus the PR Walmart gets to market to lefty Canucks. But it’s a big lie to say it’s better for the environment or that it saves us from our carbon sins or whatever.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe. It powers stars, and is available in hydrogen clouds which are the birthplace for stars.
So, all we have to do is to either go to one of those hydrogen clouds and bring some of it back, or go into the inside of a star (including our sun), and extracts some of that hydrogen to bring to Earth.
Easy peasy.
Will be available at Walmart in the near future, and cheap.
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