• @[email protected]
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    19 hours ago

    Because Japan needs to import most of its energy, it makes more sense to burn the energy at the wheels then behind the wires

    • Diplomjodler
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      15 hours ago

      And how is turning fossil fuels into hydrogen in a wildly inefficient process going to help with that?

    • threelonmusketeersM
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      18 hours ago

      Japan needs to import most of its energy

      Does Japan not get sunlight or wind, or are there other factors at play?

      • @[email protected]
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        23 hours ago

        Offshore wind isn’t really a starter for them. They’re on the edge of the Pacific shelf and the waters get deep quick. That makes platforms very hard. I also don’t think they get much in terms of prevailing winds unlike northern Europe with the Atlantic Jetstreams.

      • @[email protected]
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        28 hours ago

        Well, real estate is at a premium in an earthquake prone, typhoon ravaged set of islands. They even have geothermal potential, but don’t want to industrialise something with deep cultural value.