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Originally Posted by DaveC113
I agree. the basic issue is 7+ billion people can't drive around 2-ton transportation devices everywhere they go on a whim. All 7B people can't have thousands of sqft of living space to themselves with large grass lawns that suck up tons of water.
IMO we've screwed ourselves by allowing 3rd world countries to live in poverty for decades, of course it's a very complex problem but the population of modern, well educated countries tends to level off while in the 3rd world they tend to grow much faster. In any case the end result is far too many people in the world living in unsustainable ways because we've been unwilling or unable to help lift people out of poverty and educate them.
It's getting to the point we can't deny the effects of climate change, it's causing massive changes in weather. My home was less than 2 miles away from the Marshall Fire in CO that just burnt down almost 1000 homes. We've been in drought with the strangest weather I've ever seen since I moved here in '92. Months of oddly warm weather with lots of wind and NO rain or snow. The last 2 summers have had weeks of wildfire smoke in the air. Earth is becoming a far less hospitable place to live. As a result we're going to see panic and unreasonable knee-jerk policy that doesn't really address the basic issues and tries to maintain our current system without major changes that are really required.
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There is no way to really majorly change the lifestyle of people in developed countries, IMO, without cause major social disruptions.
It's just too complicated to talk about, so I won't expand on it further.
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Originally Posted by SFV1LE
There are cool characteristics of ICE engines, the sound, feel, rumble, etc. Also ICE engines may seem more reliable in some way because you don't need to worry about the engine failing in a blink from an electronic or battery power glitch--but ICE engines fail all the time from electronic glitches.
How about Hydrogen ICE engines? Hydrogen ICE can run with zero to super low CO2 emissions, and make tons of ICE power. How's this for combustion rumble?...
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Objectively, there isn't much reason to use hydrogen ICE over hydrogen fuel cell. The latter is more efficient and also doesn't emit NOx gases. Yep, air is 70+% nitrogen, so if you burn it with a fuel at a high enough temperature, there will be NOx. No way around it. It's the argument of BEV vs. ICE here, except hydrogen fuel cell won't even have the charging time disadvantage. Subjectively, though, I get it.
Several manufacturers have tried this. Mazda even had a rotary engine that can switch between gasoline and hydrogen at one point and had a fleet of experimental RX-8s powered by it.
The bigger issue here, though, is just how fussy hydrogen is when it comes to infrastructure and manufacturing. First of all, this stuff is hard to get on the Earth, which is ironic since it is the most abundant element in the whole universe. Most of hydrogen comes from natural gas steam reformation right now. Granted, natural gas is cleaner than a lot of other fossil fuels, but it's still a fossil fuel. Electrolysis is way too energy intensive for it to take the lead.
On the infrastructure side, well you gotta transport the hydrogen gas which is going to be less efficient than high-voltage wires (that BEV relies on). Storage is a pain because you gotta compress it to make storage more efficient but that takes up energy and you need to have suitable containers for that. And it will still slowly leak.
Really, you only see some Japanese manufacturers messing around with hydrogen fuel cell because it works in their domestic market where parking is a PITA. Many other markets in the world are more invested in BEV.
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Originally Posted by Silveradoss573
At the moment are you kidding me? He has been doing this for the past 3+ years now. Not one thing that I can recall he claimed was coming from gm has been correct yet. The only times he is correct just happens to be when he puts out a video only after gm confirms changes etc. The guy needs to stick to his DIY videos because quite frankly he has no clue what he's talking about.  |
Again, I don't believe he has any real source of inside news. I have mentioned this before: no one will risk losing their job or worse, getting an army of lawyer on their tail because they broke their non-disclosure agreement just so some dude on YouTube (70k subs aren't nothing, but also not that big) can share it with everyone. He knows as much as we do, period.