That might be a little confusing - the hydrogen is no more a "battery" than diesel is a battery that stores the energy from the sun - like that's indeed what the molecule does but not really what people tend to think of when they think of a battery.
Like it's probably simpler to explain that hydrogen is a fuel, but to make that fuel from water you had to put more energy into splitting the water than you get out of the burning of hydrogen as a fuel.
Also hydrogen is explosive as fuck, so hydrogen-powered cars spook me out.
Huh. Another case of no such thing as a free lunch. I think we really should just build out shitloads of nuclear and run everything on electrified trolley lines.
That might be a little confusing - the hydrogen is no more a "battery" than diesel is a battery that stores the energy from the sun - like that's indeed what the molecule does but not really what people tend to think of when they think of a battery.
Like it's probably simpler to explain that hydrogen is a fuel, but to make that fuel from water you had to put more energy into splitting the water than you get out of the burning of hydrogen as a fuel.
Also hydrogen is explosive as fuck, so hydrogen-powered cars spook me out.
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Huh! TIL about making hydrogen from methane. Thanks!
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Huh. Another case of no such thing as a free lunch. I think we really should just build out shitloads of nuclear and run everything on electrified trolley lines.