Toyota Prius: It's not just a car, it's an emergency generator

[Adunaphel]

Originally Posted by katwalk

you need electricity to make the hydrogen so that's impractical.

But hydrogen is a lot easier to store than electricity. Metal canisters take a lot less energy to produce than millions and millions of batteries, so in the end, hydrogen might just be more efficient.

[the Interceptor]

You can't store liquid hydrogen in a metal canister.

[prizrak]

- Hydrogen is not produced it is a chemical element It has to be extracted from compounds.
- Not all H is in the form of compounds for instance Israel is sitting on huge deposits of it.
- Gasoline mining and refining is a very energy heavy process as well as making batteries for hybrids or BEVs
- HEVs generate enough energy to run an average house and they can do it all the time cleanly
- There are plenty of ways to produce electricity that has nearly zero impact on the environment or very little impact, burning coal is hardly the best way.

If we are going to be changing our entire transportation system we might as well change the way we produce our power.

[the Interceptor]

Originally Posted by the Interceptor

You guys surely missed that there was an ice-storm, so going to the next buy-it-all shop and get a generator was kinda out of question.

Also ... FFS WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU GUYS ON ABOUT??? It's like you only focus on all the bad and wrong things, solely missing that this was one single situation we were told about, and not the revolutionary idea that's supposed to change our life forever!

...and WHY FFS DOES NOONE LEAVE A NAME WHEN GIVING NEG REPS FOR POSTS SUCH AS THIS ONE???