Cheap, green nuclear would be a breakthrough in clean energy.
Cheap, green fusion would be a breakthrough in clean energy.
Cheap, green synthetic fuels would be a breakthrough in clean energy.
Cheap, green antimatter reactors would be a breakthrough in clean energy.
Cheap, green vacuum point energy reactors would be... you get the idea.
However, the cheap, green sources of energy today are solar and wind, and no one is going to beat them for a decade.
Here's more fun stuff:
- Hydrogen has been and will be sold as green and extracted from fossil fuels.
- Hydrogen has been and will be propped up by desperate industries to delay or obfuscate EV and actual green energy
- Hydrogen has no significant infrastructure, while EVs and green energy have extant and robust delivery infrastructure (aside from battery storage).
- and I didn't even get into the inefficiencies and engineering challenges.
Hydrogen will have it's niches. But right now it is a trojan horse, and suffers the same issues as new nuclear or fusion: solar and wind are kicking so much ass and still getting stronger/cheaper/better year on year, that any application that involves even a five year schedule can't target the price to be competitive.
Usually, they'll be disingenuous and only talk about current prices, and complain about "subsidies" for their competitors and hide the "subsidies" they need or will redirect.
The path forward is solar, wind, battery, and PHEVs and EVs.
Oh look, Russia's war on Ukraine being sold to prop up an uncompetitive approach (well it is a trojan horse by the oil industry, what would one expect).
You know what would have made us ready for Russia? If we took an auto design that is 25 years old (the hybrid vehicle) and slapped a charging plug on it (aka a PHEV) and about 10 or 15 years ago forced or incented every new car to have that design, and pushed incentives to get the all-electric range improved each year as batteries got better and better.
To emphasize, that design was not rocket science. It was superior efficiency on highway (atkinson cycle), far greater efficiency in city driving, better torque, quieter, less emissions, all-electric for 80-90% of city trips, blah blah blah.
We'd need less military, would have kneecapped Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, averted Daesh (funded by oil), Ukraine (it's over pipelines, dummies), and Syria (also was over pipelines) in all likelihood.
Cheap, green fusion would be a breakthrough in clean energy.
Cheap, green synthetic fuels would be a breakthrough in clean energy.
Cheap, green antimatter reactors would be a breakthrough in clean energy.
Cheap, green vacuum point energy reactors would be... you get the idea.
However, the cheap, green sources of energy today are solar and wind, and no one is going to beat them for a decade.
Here's more fun stuff:
- Hydrogen has been and will be sold as green and extracted from fossil fuels.
- Hydrogen has been and will be propped up by desperate industries to delay or obfuscate EV and actual green energy
- Hydrogen has no significant infrastructure, while EVs and green energy have extant and robust delivery infrastructure (aside from battery storage).
- and I didn't even get into the inefficiencies and engineering challenges.
Hydrogen will have it's niches. But right now it is a trojan horse, and suffers the same issues as new nuclear or fusion: solar and wind are kicking so much ass and still getting stronger/cheaper/better year on year, that any application that involves even a five year schedule can't target the price to be competitive.
Usually, they'll be disingenuous and only talk about current prices, and complain about "subsidies" for their competitors and hide the "subsidies" they need or will redirect.
The path forward is solar, wind, battery, and PHEVs and EVs.
Oh look, Russia's war on Ukraine being sold to prop up an uncompetitive approach (well it is a trojan horse by the oil industry, what would one expect).
You know what would have made us ready for Russia? If we took an auto design that is 25 years old (the hybrid vehicle) and slapped a charging plug on it (aka a PHEV) and about 10 or 15 years ago forced or incented every new car to have that design, and pushed incentives to get the all-electric range improved each year as batteries got better and better.
To emphasize, that design was not rocket science. It was superior efficiency on highway (atkinson cycle), far greater efficiency in city driving, better torque, quieter, less emissions, all-electric for 80-90% of city trips, blah blah blah.
We'd need less military, would have kneecapped Russia, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, averted Daesh (funded by oil), Ukraine (it's over pipelines, dummies), and Syria (also was over pipelines) in all likelihood.