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20 Jul 2019
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I suspect that, like now with petrol or diesel, the future will also have a choice - battery powered electric vehicles or hydrogen fuel cell powered electric vehicles. The use of petrol and diesel is likely to continue for some time as mainstream fuels in the developing world due to the cost of rolling out new infrastructures for battery recharging and hydrogen refuelling. The internal combustion engine is likely to disappear as choice for new vehicles quite soon in many markets due to the pollution they cause.
In the UK they are getting concerned about the pollution caused by the wear of tyres and brakes. Our old machines using fossil fuels will, in time, become as rare a sight as steam powered traction engines are now.
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22 Jul 2019
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Maybe I don’t get it, or maybe I do. In the USA 63% of electricity is fossil fuel. Where does the electricity for hydrolysis of water for hydrogen vehicles come from? Until the grids worldwide wean off fossil fuel (as previously stated India/China are >70%) there’s a bit of a problem calling electric vehicles “carbon neutral”. And still a place for the IC engine especially burning things like algae derived hydrocarbons. Solar of course being the energy source.
I do admit I am fixated on climate change.
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Remember when there was leaded gas in all pumps at all stations ? Along came some pie in the sky dreamers trying to destroy the world who demanded that lead be removed? Too expensive, no pumps for unleaded existed, no one would risk their engines to unleaded gas. Big Brother government bureaucrats came along and required all stations to have one pump for unleaded gas. . These days, almost all cars and bikes run on unleaded. Change can start slow and pick up speed. Once it gets to a breaking point there is no turning back.
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