Douglas County PUD hasn’t just built a filling station, but has also built its own hydrogen production facility that uses Washington State’s abundant hydroelectric power. According to the utility, electricity makes up 80% of the input costs of hydrogen production. Thus, a cheap source of power means cheap hydrogen. As a bonus, the utility can use the hydrogen electrolyzer to burn off excess power to help stabilize the grid at times when renewable energy supplies are high and grid demand is low.
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Granted. 100k. Or 900k. Both are lethal, tbh
G0 summits would represent a significant savings
Yeh, Linux doesn't have to be scary these days.
Upgrading to miniwaves
That's not really "trying to out bully".
That's contingency planning around an unstable government.
Trump has fucked around with Canadian trade negotiations. Why should the EU hang their hopes on what would likely be a similar treatment.
Just smile and nod at the US, and do your own thing
THEY SAID:
I THINK WE NEED TO TYPE LOUDER
So, we should be sending people to prison? Cause that's what happened to people involved in dieselgate. Along with the affected cars being recalled and the owners compensated.
From the wiki, and I'm simplifying:
VW was handed over to the German government after being offered free-of-charge to Ford in 1948 by the British government (who ran the factory up till then).
In 1946 the produced 1000 cars per month.
In 1949, 2 cars were sold in the US.
In 1952, 12 VWs were sold in Canada.
In 1955 they produced over 1 million Beetles.
So 3 years on life support being ran by the British. Dunno how long being run by the German government before becoming GmbH.
Over what sort of timeframe?
Couple months? Couple years? Couple decades?
That's the issue with suspending due process for illegal immigrants.
All you have to do is say someone is an illegal immigrant and they lose all rights to defend themselves and disprove the false claim.
Yup.
It's just quite common for these hydrogen production facilities are cracking hydrocarbons.
Or if they are electrolysing, it's with power from a grid backed by hydrocarbon.
So "where does the hydrogen come from?" is a common question.
While it sounds like this does come from the grid, it does sound like a high-renewable grid.
Altho if the hydroelectric is capable of pump-storage, I imagine the operators would rather fill reservoirs than convert the excess energy into hydrogen.
But still, hydrogen as a fuel is interesting and promising. I hope all the difficulties are worked out! And the first step to that is adoption & demand, which requires hydrogen.