wellwisher
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Hydrogen is the future. The train used fuel cell technology. The train is essentially electric, but is uses an hydrogen fuel cell instead of a battery cell. The difference is a battery has to be recharged, while a fuel cell uses the electrons in the portable hydrogen fuel, like the charged battery uses the electrons in the charged battery. Hydrogen, is far more potent in terms of its energy content, pound for pound, than a recharged Lithium battery The best electric trains get about 400 miles. They can add more batteries to go further but cost per mile goes up. This is less of a problem with the light weight hydrogen fuel and the reusable lighter fuel cell.
When you refuel with hydrogen, the fill up speed would be like replacing the entire lithium battery with another one fully charged, in 5-10 minutes, and not have to wait for a charge. A hydrogen future will allow the fossil fuel industry, that employs many people, to shift its resources toward the hydrogen production from fossil fuels. I can see a future process where you do not even take the oil or coal out of the ground, but make hydrogen underground, and then harvest it; CO2 containment.
Another approach to hydrogen power, is being explored by the sport car manufacturer, Ferrari. They developed an upside down engine design that can use hydrogen for an internal combustion engine. This approach would allow existing manufacturers to swap over from gasoline to hydrogen; same assemble lines. Again, hydrogen has a lot of energy density, and theoretically the octane rating can be tweaked through the roof, based on how you use the same fuel.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/fer...brid-hydrogen-car-with-an-upside-down-engine/
Hydrogen is the future. The train used fuel cell technology. The train is essentially electric, but is uses an hydrogen fuel cell instead of a battery cell. The difference is a battery has to be recharged, while a fuel cell uses the electrons in the portable hydrogen fuel, like the charged battery uses the electrons in the charged battery. Hydrogen, is far more potent in terms of its energy content, pound for pound, than a recharged Lithium battery The best electric trains get about 400 miles. They can add more batteries to go further but cost per mile goes up. This is less of a problem with the light weight hydrogen fuel and the reusable lighter fuel cell.
When you refuel with hydrogen, the fill up speed would be like replacing the entire lithium battery with another one fully charged, in 5-10 minutes, and not have to wait for a charge. A hydrogen future will allow the fossil fuel industry, that employs many people, to shift its resources toward the hydrogen production from fossil fuels. I can see a future process where you do not even take the oil or coal out of the ground, but make hydrogen underground, and then harvest it; CO2 containment.
Another approach to hydrogen power, is being explored by the sport car manufacturer, Ferrari. They developed an upside down engine design that can use hydrogen for an internal combustion engine. This approach would allow existing manufacturers to swap over from gasoline to hydrogen; same assemble lines. Again, hydrogen has a lot of energy density, and theoretically the octane rating can be tweaked through the roof, based on how you use the same fuel.
https://www.motortrend.com/news/fer...brid-hydrogen-car-with-an-upside-down-engine/
