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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)

submitted 5 days ago by Espiritdescali to c/futurology

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 18 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I think it’s the knowledge that hydrogen tech is being pushed so hard by the oil lobbies because it’s currently most cheaply made by refining it out of oil using massive amounts of electricity which they can generate by burning more oil.

The astroturfing of hydrogen as a green fuel is disgusting, and straight out of the “Natural gas” playbook that got it piped to virtually every home in the western world over the last 200 years.

[–] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I replied to the person above you who made essentially the same comment.

I understand that part and somewhat agree, but still think progress is cool. Especially in a futurology post.

[–] GreyEyedGhost@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago

I'll agree that learning how to better work with and contain hydrogen could have some future benefits, and research should absolutely be made in those directions. Until those key issues are dealt with, hydrogen isn't useful as a consumer energy source/store since it has been surpassed by batteries/electricity in almost every area it would be useful (and isn't mature enough to be competitive in the areas it hasn't been surpassed),