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Originally Posted by tonupkid
Hydrogen. The word 'if' says it all. Electric cars are here, actual working useable and purchasable electric cars.
For the future, Hydrogen has plenty going for it, but for now electric cars are here, on people drives, using our roads. I won't be holding back waiting for that 'if' to come good. Nor, I suspect, will the vast majority of people.
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One of the main issues I have with hydrogen - apart from its current absence, and that it shares similar combustion risks as petrol - is that the delivery model is just far too complicated. I preach simplicity to clients as my main line of work, and a hydrogen fuel solution unfortunately just maintains the wholly unnecessary complexity of the current fuel supply chain - i.e. refining of the "end" product, a complicated supply chain for physical delivery, and the maintenance of wasteful infrastructure. Much of that is not required, creates inefficiency and extra cost, and uses/depletes resources and/or energy.
Compare that with electricity, where there's little comparable "cost of conversion", and where the supply chain is either:
(a) universal and already in place (in the case of developed economies) or
(b) able to be quickly created in a shorter, less wasteful end-to-end supply design (in the case of emerging economies).
Both electric and hydrogen are both infinitely better than burning dead dinosaurs, but of the two, I prefer electric
