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Hydrogen is an infrastructure nightmare.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

:( yupppppp

@vballpat12

6 ай бұрын

It's actually a similar infrastructure to Autogas which exists. Natural gas pipelines only need seals upgraded to be able to run higher mixes of hydrogen and gas turbines can burn hydrogen as well. Its more of an interest problem, oil and gas have invested heavily finding oil reserves offshore for example and need to make back on their returns. The people that say hydrogen is too dangerous sit on top of a gas tank every day. If that tank is punctured the gas will leak out and accumulate UNDER the car and all you need is an ignition source. Hydrogen is explosive but because it is lighter than air it poses less of a risk as it cannot explode in the pressure tank (no oxygen inside) and if the tank is ruptured it will dissipate into the air where it can explode but not under your vehicle. I would rather drive a hydrogen car than a gas one :)

@syarizansulaiman6554

6 ай бұрын

True 😂

Beautiful as always, thank you for your hard work making these videos, Merry Christmas to you

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Merry Christmas!! Thank you for your support! :)

for electric truck, the idea is already introduce as swappable batteries. so your truck wont stop. just change the battery and go.

@texanplayer7651

7 ай бұрын

You could also give trucks smaller batteries to make them operate in smaller areas, their job would be to only load from shipyard to freit train station, and from train station to the precise final adress. A semi with 200 miles of range fully loaded is more than enough in such a system, and considering that Tesla managed to build 500 miles semis, than 200 will be more than manageable to build. (A Tesla semi reportedly spends 2 kWh per mile, so 200 miles range would be 400 kWh of battery, that's a battery of approx 5000 pounds, more than manageable for a semi) Of course this would require that we change our system of moving stuff and our mentality about range. But consider that our ancestors thrived on trains, they had no semis or trucks at all. So it IS possible.

Good talking points on hydrogen vehicles. I remember years ago when Honda would present at the Los Angeles Auto Show their vision/version of the Hydrogen vehicle. And each year thereafter, improved hydrogen systems would be shown including reduction in size. Honda even presented a home refueling system extracting hydrogen from natural gas. Interesting stuff.

Hydrogen fuel, & hydrogen fuel cells are very different things. You can "burn" hydrogen as a fuel in a conventional piston engine, but the infrastructure doesn't exist to deliver it, & the storage tanks in the car require significant engineering to keep them from exploding in a crash. A Hydrogen fuel cell creates electricity from hydrogen, but the fuel cell requires very expensive precious metals. If electricity was abundant enough, green hydrogen could be manufactured from water, but we could also make carbon fuel from water. And because carbon fuels would no longer be made from stuff we pull from underground, they would technically be carbon neutral.

Thank you for your video. They are always nice to see✌

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so so much! I appreciate the support! :)

truck of the future is also battery electric - no doubt. MCS charging standard is killing every H2 dream (and will substitude diesel in the long run as well)…

Awsome explanation, kinda nervous of my toyota mirai 2022. Thinking if should i keep it or just trade it in. Atm hydrogen is $36 pero kilogram.. really expensive atm... hopefully will get lower but its a wishfull thinking atm 😢

Very interesting topic. I think the biggest challenge with hydrogen is the storage issue. Hydrogen is so volatile that an accident could prove to be a catastrophic event. Storing smaller amounts of hydrogen greatly reduce this, so some have created ingenious methods of hydrogen generation on demand. In an application such as cars and trucks, acceleration demands more hydrogen than can be (quickly) generated, so drawing from storage becomes a way around it. Hydrogen generation only requires water as the main fuel, which is great. (without counting wear items such as the alkaline base, fuel cells, etc.) But hydrogen combustion keeps us in the realm of combustion engines which are relatively inefficient. DC motors seem so much more efficient in comparison. I hope we can make higher strides with electric cars in the next decade. Charging them is a primary issue and if we can work through that, I think combustion engines will mark their place in history.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

I so agree with your thoughts. I would actually pretty scared to drive with hydrogen tank. I am hopeful for solid state batteries in EV applications, sodium in residential storage and utility scale, and hydrogen maybe on big ocean cargo ships? Thanks for sharing your thoughts Bob! :)

@kylereese4822

7 ай бұрын

@@solartimeusa Tanks at ??-000psi under seat NO thanks...

Stanley Meyer was a man who was known for creating the "first" HHO generator car, it is also said that the "big oil " had him killed. Either way of all of the generators, an HHO generator is the easiest of them all to build, you can go into a dollar store and purchase some stainless-steel spoon and a "plastic"' jar and get a micro-one-way check valve and you're good to go. Grant Thompson, "The king of Random" did a great build of this, I also made one for a school project it's a great source and if paired with something like sound power this would be killer. There are many kits online and have been people who have run this in their car, the main problem many mentions is the buildup of pressure when the car parks since there's no natural pressure release.

On the submarine we would desalinate the ocean water surrounding us to give us Oxygen and we’d pump out the elements not needed: hydrogen and the salt waste. We could do this economically because we had a nuclear reactor giving us power. I LOVE the promise of H to power vehicles but as others have mentioned…the infrastructure, like that for gasoline and diesel would take decades to build-out. Hydrogen for heavy industrial looks promising.

@solartimeusa

5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing the story. That’s so interesting! Same thoughts on hydrogen. Promising but far away…

Hi Martyna, I have watched a few of your videos, thank you for not being another of these superficial channels, at least you are doing your research. Regarding the fuel cells of vehicles, there is a ramp up time for the device to produce max power, this has to bridged by a battery.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for that. I am still learning but I hope to bring a ton of knowledge to the youtube sphere. :) Thanks again!

The electric motor is 100% the answer for how we move our vehicles now and into the future. What energy source we use to power them is still TBD. I lean more towards electric energy sources, mainly because we can control the source with renewable like solar/wind etc. I don't want to live in a world where I have to 100% rely on someone else to provide me the fuel for my transportation. I'm hoping the battery technology will drastically change for the better in the next few years. I just can't be too optimistic, as you said, a lot of the technology is stifled by money. If the battery in my car/boat/plane is so small and efficient, and I can use solar/wind to 100% charge it...someone's not making money after the initial purchase.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

I 100% see your point! Yes if we have an electric car and all hell breaks loose, we at least can charge our cars from our solar systems at home. Hydrogen is dependent on 3rd party.

@doubleooh7337

7 ай бұрын

So how do you get the electric except from someone else? 😂 it doesn't grow on trees

@doubleooh7337

7 ай бұрын

​@@solartimeusaokay charge it on your system what happens when you over 300miles away? And if its constantly cloudly/raining at home?

@wallyrogers2371

7 ай бұрын

@@doubleooh7337 how do you think solar works? As I stated “after the initial purchase”.

@doubleooh7337

7 ай бұрын

@@wallyrogers2371 do you even know how long itll take to fully charge a ev using just solar? If you had perfect weather no clouds and full sun, i bet even after 4days of that the ev car will not even be 50% charged, you wont be going anywhere , you'll be able to enjoy that for what about 1month out of the whole year ;)

Hydrogen cars are really hybrids, still needing at least some size of battery, and electric motors. The infrastructure for hydrogen for cars seems not feasible. Hydrogen is a small element, it takes a lot to contain it without leakage. Hindenburg?

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Yes, very very sad story. I unfortunately agree with you. I am just so hopeful for all those renewable options I would love to see them all succeed, but youre right. I honestly think I would be pretty scared to drive a hydrogen car.

While I love the idea of green hydrogen, I don't think the numbers add up. I remember reading a while ago that water electrolysis requires about 50 kWh of electricity to produce 1 kg of hydrogen. For this example, let's say a commercial, grid scale solar farm cost $1.50/watt. Let's forget about the access to water for a minute and just pretend that is not an issue. If we put this solar electrolysis farm in AZ or NV for maximum production, the high end might be 1800 kWh of production for every 1 kW of installed system size. Let's say it is a 1 MW (1,000 kW, 1,000,000W) solar farm. Let's also forget about panel degradation, inverter replacements, storm damage, etc. So the install cost was $1,500,000. This 1 MW system would produce 1,800,000 kWh per year X 25 year lifespan = 45,000,000 kWh . 45,000,000/$1,500,000 gives us a 25 year price per kWh of $0.0333 * 50 kWh = $1.67 per kg of hydrogen. In reality, if we factor in a bunch of stuff I said to forget about, that likely brings it to at least $2, if not $3 per kg of hydrogen, just to produce it. We have not compressed it, stored it, distributed it, or anything else. When all is said and done, it would likely cost a consumer $5/kg of hydrogen. In the video you say 5 kg of hydrogen for 300 miles so that is $25 to go 300 miles on hydrogen. If an EV gets 4 miles per kWh, then it would need 75 kWh to go 300 miles. If you have a solar setup at your home that produces electricity at a 25-year price per kWh of $0.10, that same 300 mile trip cost $7.50 Can anyone tell me if I am missing something?

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Yes totally agree, and you're not missing much. The process of extracting hydrogen is expensive, but I see how with the excess of renewables, and lack of storage it could be redirected to create green hydrogen ? Maybe... maybe some day.

@user-nu1iv8xe2k

7 ай бұрын

@@solartimeusa Yes, I am missing something, MORE OF YOUR VIDEOS! Keep them coming!

@texanplayer7651

7 ай бұрын

Yes, you are missing the fact that hydrogen will be sold with extra margins and taxes, increasing the price even further

@user-nu1iv8xe2k

7 ай бұрын

@@texanplayer7651 yup, forgot about Uncle Sam.

@petertraveller6421

7 ай бұрын

Currently refill of Toyota mirai in Norway is about 85 euros. Electric car can do same for 20 euros, or even less than that.

Hydrogen can be good to replace the coal, like what Sweden is trying to do with steel production, but they will use the gas to provide energy to the fire to heat the steel, but I do not think it will be good to give power to the transport systems.

In worst situation it won't go burn. It'll go boom.

@solartimeusa

6 ай бұрын

yup... thats what would freak the cra ap out of me is driving a hydrogen car :D

LETS Go!

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

haha yup!

Sad thing is like you said and I've mentioned before on your other videos. It's still all about money 💰 right now. And yes I love the Martian movie as well!! 😊 great video and information 👌

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

YAY! Thank you for sharing and leaving a comment, and your support! So appreciated.

Let's hope something does!

12:06 "we have to extraxt hydrogen from other elements" should be "we have to extract hydrogen from other compounds" . We can not extract element from element.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

YES! Thanks for catching that! :O

Next 5 years battery cells are getting better about 25%, EV's will make more sense every year.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Yes agreed, I dont see private car sector to be huge as far as hydrogen goes, Solid state batteries are my bet for future EVs.

@petertraveller6421

7 ай бұрын

@@solartimeusa I hope someone finds a bacteria, enzyme or something like that, which could remove hydrogen from water as a natural reaction, so we could put that like swimming pool size water container and hydrogen starts to coming out and we get almost free hydrogen. This is the only way to make hydrogen cars to win EV's.

nice video .

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Thanks, I appreciate the comment! :)

Toyota is developing an ICE that runs on hydrogen, check out Plasma Kinetics and their hydrogen storage tech. Excellent video, thanks. 👍

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info! And I will definitely check it out! Thank you for leaving a comment :)!

@DCGreenZone

7 ай бұрын

@@solartimeusa Don't miss this Chevy pickup truck hydrogen conversion, this guy is a mad scientist. kzread.info/dash/bejne/hHV5ysqSobCrcqg.htmlsi=LewU4fHRr21lBmlV

Informative video, not sure if Hydrogen cars will really take off but good point on it being part of a solution.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Thank you Dane for sharing your thoughts, I appreciate it. I think EVS will be huge with simple batteries, Hydrogen maybe a truck solution? Since its lighter.

@daneflanigan

7 ай бұрын

@@solartimeusa from my discussions with the CSULA station here in LA, the first commercial station in the US, they said that hydrogen is still really volatile for storage and the station has to close periodically for cooling. I’m sure technology will change but will it be cost effective?

@potencjalnypracownik2966

7 ай бұрын

Nope this is pure clickbait-scandal thing to get views. Hydrogen can only work in some heavy industries as a fuel is dead as disco.

Whatever the future holds, just hope it doesn't involve draining the earth from its resources, because surely it's meant to be the for a reason and not just to supply our greedy needs. We'll never be green with the products we are currently using.

@solartimeusa

6 ай бұрын

Thats a very very fair point. Thank you for sharing.

Hospitals. Can use the Electricity, Oxygen, and Water.

Hydrogen cars will never make it commercially as electric already fill that space adequately and improving all the time.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

I think I have to agree. I think vehicles will be fully electric. But I am hopeful to see hydrogen used in other applications too.

For passenger cars the future is electric! Hydrogen isn't an option, and will not be. To handle with electric power is simple, efficient and that's why cheap or at least affordable. For heavy trucks you could think some years ago that hydrogen is the option, but it will not be in that way. At least in the Nordic countries charging heavy trucks seem to be a no-brainer for the future. Martyna, you can google, truck manufacturer Scania and the battery manufacturer Northvolt. Scania demands batteries to last 1,000,000 miles or 1.5 million Km, and Nortvolt says that is "no problem"... Unfortunately you will not see such kind of a battery in a car. The governments decide how long the batteries will last! The technology today, in 2023, can make batteries last at least five times longer than the gasoline cars are rolling on the roads today. When thinking of heavy trucks in EU and the Nordic countries, the drivers have restrictive driving hours between the pauses that is why the charging isn't a big deal for the future. In Sweden and Finland some trucks now are about 34 m (about 114 ft) and I think the maximum total weight 80 metric ton. I think even some trains will have batteries in the future. The the low speed and short trains can use batteries between places with power supply. By the way, a German company is planning a hydrogen factory in my hometown in Finland! It will be about 2-3 miles away from the house I use to use. A couple of miles away from the house in the opposite direction there is a wind power farm, 56 7.2 MW wind turbines. If you can find an open field larger than 2x2 miles, you can see red lights almost in every direction at night... In the region, 70x15 miles, live 20,000 people.

It is just a dream....it is to expensive to produce and the gas tank leaking 10 % per day....

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

I didnt even get to the leakage part and the containers needed... I am hoping it will be used in some other forms, but yes... I agree not in personal cars.

Great video ! Ocean ships is the most logical to be accepted on a large scale. Researchers have already found a way to economically turn saltwater from the oceans into Hydrogen.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

WELL SAID! Yes I think that will be huge.

There are more than three "colors" for hydrogen these days. There's also "Red" hydrogen which is electrolyzed hydrogen using nuclear power to run the electrolyzer. There's also "White" hydrogen which is naturally occurring hydrogen. France has found an old mine shaft which has a pretty large reserve and the US has found several as well. It's also commonly found along with methane during oil well drilling but gets flared off rather than captured.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Very true, I just focused on top 3, rather than going into all colors. Hopefully more videos about hydrogen coming where we can share more of that for sure. :) Thank you for sharing!

Truth about hydrogen cars is that it is stored at 10,000 psi about 2 feet away from us , NEVER in a million years

Much of the information is outdated. The reason is that ev battery improvements are continual. Comparisons that made sense a year ago are are woefully out of dare now. Hydrogen production and storage has more problems now than they did 20 years ago. The big difference is that it has been proven that hydrogen is worse for the environment than carbon dioxide and hydrogen leakage is a problem that has never been completely solved. No new hydrogen filling stations are being built and instead stations are continually being demolished. Testing hydrogen fueled busses proved to be far less economical than ev busses and all hydrogen busses were removed from service. If this channel remains useful it needs to be updated at least monthly.

Great video making skills, but bad research I guess. The private hydrogen refueling station is available and affordable. You can refuel for free with solar, wind or hydro.

@solartimeusa

6 ай бұрын

Hey! Thanks for leaving a comment, based on my research on multiple websites most of them in MAJORITY are in California. I appreciate the feedback! As I am a new to this youtube game! afdc.energy.gov/fuels/hydrogen_locations.html#/find/nearest?fuel=HY h2fcp.org/stationmap h2stationmaps.com/

Dont have to watch the video to know the answer is NO. Bottom line Hydrogen is very explosive and we do not want that on our roads. How ever I can see it being used at fuel up locations to generate electricity that will go into the cars so there is a definitely place for hydrogen its just not on our roads.

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Hey Zemtek, Thanks for leaving a comment and sharing. I agree with you on the risks of explosions, and personally would be kinda scared to drive a car with hydrogen tank. Will see how it plays out,I do hope that we will see hydrogen used in other applications though.

@zemtek420

6 ай бұрын

@@solartimeusa I personally would not be scared, but thats just me. I do fully understand why normal people would be scared. I personally want to go out with a bang when I go :) Plus another thing I did not think about is hydrogen vehicles could be used in a terrorist attack. Hydrogen is very explosive and be used to set off even stronger explosives. So i see this will be a very very very highly regulated industry.

Hydrogen tank always leak 3-4% everyday, leave for week just lost 25% alone, better stay petrol & Diesel car 🚗

@solartimeusa

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing!

No hydrogen won't displace EVs. The fact that there are videos like this shows that the producer did not read and understand Michael Liebrich's hydrogen ladder.

All icm cars can easily run on hydrogen gas, all that is needed is a simple timing change, and your numbers are a little off , 1litre of water (1kg of water) can turn into 1,750litres of hho gas. The myth is it's far away from being plausible , but the opposite is true, it doesn't need to be made at home or in factories just simply ON DEMAND in the car while driving

P r o m o s m 💯

just came here for the laugh

@solartimeusa

7 ай бұрын

Happy you had some fun :)

All production hydrogen vehicles ARE DRIVEN BY ELECTRIC MOTORS. This has to be the biggest misunderstanding about hydrogen vehicles. Hydrogen is a substitute for lithium in an electric vehicle, not the electric motor. Hydrogen can be generated on site as opposed to needing to be trucked across the country. It can be used to store excess energy during the day generated by nuclear and renewables. And there's zero harmful emissions from a fuelcell vehicle. Hydrogen combustion is not a realistic solution and no manufacturer is putting resources towards this thinking it's a viable solution. Toyota built one, but it's only a pet project and they're well aware it's just as inefficient as gas vehicles and the emissions if combustion is not perfect can be just as bad or worse than carbon emissions from a traditional ice vehicle. But they're just showing that they can do it.

@lesliecarter4295

7 ай бұрын

H2ICE is now being implemented by Cummins, Toyota , Geely, JCB, Caterpillar, Deutz, Porsche , Ford, Stellantis, BMW , Hyundai Doosan , etc. just saying…

@jensalan

7 ай бұрын

@@lesliecarter4295 No, not really. There's development going on, but the reality is hydrogen ICE is not a reasonable solution when fuel cells already exist. Fuel cells can be around 80% efficient. Hydrogen combustion cannot really exceed 30%-40% efficiency because so much energy is lost through waste heat and noise. It's why gas/diesel engines are so inefficient when compared to electric vehicles. (keep in mind that gas has about 100x the energy density of lithium). Cummins only has one in development. Toyota sells a FCEV but the combustion engine will never go into mass production. It's only being developed as a race engine alternative so people can hear the car go vroom. Greely doesn't sell one. Jcb doesn't sell one. Catipillar is probably the closest at having a viable product. They have generators that only accept a 25% hydrogen blend. I'm not going to over every brand you listed, but again combustion just isn't a reasonable solution when fuel cells already exist. They're quiet and don't generate nearly as much waste heat so they're inherently more efficient without any potential for NOx emissions.

@lesliecarter4295

7 ай бұрын

@@jensalan well we shall have to agree to disagree. We will see who is correct 👍

@jensalan

7 ай бұрын

Yeah. Agree to disagree.🙂 I'll eat my words if hydrogen combustion beats out fuel cell 😅

@lesliecarter4295

7 ай бұрын

@@jensalan👍

No

@solartimeusa

6 ай бұрын

yes