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nationalize the fed

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13. Someone that actually knows something can explain it to you
Tue Oct 14, 2014, 08:53 AM
Oct 2014

I've never seen anything like this. A bunch of ignorant anonymous clowns on the internet spouting complete and total nonsense over and over and over again.

READ THIS:

Vehicle Tech of the Near Future: What are the (dis)advantages of hydrogen fuel cells versus Lithium-ion batteries, when used on a large (e.g., nationwide) scale?

Charging a battery is a process which converts electrical energy
into chemical energy, and discharging it converts that stored chemical energy back to electrical energy. This process is exactly equivalent (in terms of thermodynamic efficiency) to using electricity to make hydrogen, and then later using that hydrogen to make electricity. The fundamental underlying efficiencies of a BEV compared to an FCV are essentially the same.

The ONLY real difference is that using hydrogen and fuel cells it is possible to transport the chemically-stored energy (in the form of hydrogen gas) about the place, store it in a tank, and rapidly re-fuel a vehicle with it. This is not possible with the contents of a charged battery.

Finally, if you need a greater range with a adequately-powered FCV one need only increase the storage capacity ... add another hydrogen tank or two to the car ... which is far, far more easy to do than to increase the battery capacity by an equivalent factor.

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Let's hear more insults. You've shown what you are, now crank it up.

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