These are fuel cell buses, which is the only way to use hydrogen efficiently and uses green hydrogen, which must really piss off the fossil fuel Industry that Aberdeen has relied on for years. For mass transport it's a neat solution.
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The big problem with hydrogen in an ICE is it won't have range without a huge amount of storage capacity. That's ok in a big vehicle not so good in a small one. It's also hugely inefficient and produces more co2 much better to just burn the gas in the first place.
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If it was only about money then there is an obvious winner. But it's not. There is far more at stake than the profits of big oil.Cost is a big issue too until it becomes more popular then will it be taxed like fuel is now? https://stillwaterassociates.com/how-does-the-cost-of-hydrogen-stack-up-against-gasoline/
If HMG suceeds in getting all oil powered vehicles off the road, that tax loss will need to be replaced.
And we also have to consider what the oil producing countries will do too, it's been an imense earner for them for a long time, also there is still a lot of oil down there, I've seen estimates of enough for a 50 years at the current rate of use, are we just going to leave it there? I doubt it when the infrasructure is already in place and well understood, it'll probably just be refracted into diesel but no petrol.
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Amount of Oil left in the world based on proven gas reserves and current global consumption levels. World Oil reserves, production, and consumption by year and by country, imports, exports, charts and list.
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Strange as there was a program about the scrapping of seabed for cobalt, and very young children digging for components in open cast mines.
That is exactly what everything to do with power and energy IS about. Greed and profits. They may add tags to make things popular but don’t make the mistake of thinking EV or any other type of propulsion is ultimately about anything other than profit.
It won’t, they will be fracking
Invading country’s for oil and resources has been going on a mighty long time. It won’t run out in 47 years because demand wil decrease. Before it gets anywhere near that state the big boys will roll out some of the technology they have been suppressing.
Meanwhile. the log burning brigade are producing some 345 times the air pollution [much higher if the wood is still wet] than from ICE, and high concentrations of carcinogens indoors, especially from the close quarters blowing on the embers/kindling to revive the fire or get it started ...
