Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations will close immediately.

  • scarabic@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    “Doesn’t require a battery to work” is a fairly meaningless upside when it does require a fuel cell, a moisture exhaust, and a cannister of compressed, flammable gas.

    • laurelraven@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      So much simpler than a brick holding the energy already in the form you need it in that can return it to the parts that need it at several times the efficiency, right?

      I genuinely don’t get the arguments that hydrogen is simpler or more universally compatible when it’s very easy to see it isn’t