DaoYanghttps://www.resilience.org/stories/2018-06-18/electric-cars-to-the-rescue/
Why #ElectricCars are only a marginal part of the solution to the #Transition conundrum
Antanicus@Daoyang a very sound and complete analysis of the problems of battery EV (BEV) cars. BEVs should be considered a buffer solution, until fuel cell tech reaches an acceptable price point. An important point in favor of FCEVs is that the tech scales much better, in fact Alstom is already testing fuel cell powered trains.
@Antanicus Beyond the price point, if our objective is primarily transitioning to cleaner fuel, there really is a need to find smarter ways of producing hydrogen for #fuelcells than from natural gas... Contrary to what is currently being done. Maybe #solarhydrogen or #photolysis?
Interesting review of the different options there: http://www.altenergy.org/renewables/hydrogen_and_fuel_cells_production.html
@Daoyang renewable-powered electrolysis appears to be the best option according to my (humble and non-technical) opinion, for at least two reasons:
-a combination of wind and sun is always available everywhere on the planet
-the technical complexity seems pretty low, which makes it easy for locally owned and/or developed solutions (think municipal broadband)
-a combination of wind and sun is always available everywhere on the planet
-the technical complexity seems pretty low, which makes it easy for locally owned and/or developed solutions (think municipal broadband)