• @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    You don’t need to use the standard grid energy. You can use off peak power rates in areas with a lot of wind, so it’d use the otherwise unusable energy. Or you could disconnect from the grid entirely. But the power source is absolutely a concern.

    What would the co2 trade off look like between diesel and hydrogen? Diesel you’d have a constant co2 per mile, whereas hydrogen would have higher kwh efficiency, but high conversion inefficiency, then some percentage of the energy emits co2 at a certain rate. I don’t have time to crunch the numbers now, but I would be surprised if hydrogen was more ghg intensive.

    • Cethin
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      11 year ago

      Or you could disconnect from the grid entirely.

      The off peak usage, sure. This though? How would that be green? You could spend the same money to install solar, wind, whatever and take dirty energy off the grid. That’s the point is you need to use energy to make it, when instead that energy could remove dirty energy. It’s greenwashing. It’s not removing demand for dirty energy, its just increasing overall energy demand.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        Increasing energy use compared to diesel? If you count the energy in the diesel, I’m pretty sure hydrogen would use less. But I think what matters over all is the total co2 emitted per mile, including generation.