"If you do the comparison with an electric bus, an electric bus will go double the distance with the same amount of power as hydrogen."
Where would you expect it to go? When you burn the hydrogen, the oxygen comes out of the air.
That's a strange idea. The energy (in electrolysis) goes into splitting the bonds, so you can't really say that the O₂︎ carries away half the energy, and even if it did the O₂︎ only represents a third of the atoms. The same amount of energy gets released when the 2H₂︎ recombines with an O₂︎.
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It is essential to have exactly enough energy to keep the National Grid stable. Too much is as bad as too little. It's a 3 bears situation, it needs to be just right.
What's porridge got to do with it?
I agree entirely about building more nuclear power stations and that is happening. But it is about 3 decades late, going too slowly, and will probably stop before we've built enough of them. We ought to be generating 30% to 40% with nuclear, more than 3 times what we are now.What we need is a few more nuclear power stations to be able to over produce combined with multiple expansive LiOn battery storage facilities for storing the excess and if that still fails in Winter we can all keep warm next to the fires at the battery sites!
Well, I am not too far from Hinkley C which I understand is using unproven technology, way behind schedule, and massively over budget, there's a thing!
Every large construction project goes massively over budget, at least partly because the contract is awarded to the lowest bidder not the most realistic bidder.
Oh, I was not aware of that, even though I know it was years behind schedule, so there is hope for Hinkley C then.
Oh shades of Silkwood then ...
Rather that than the tangerine toddlers adventures in the Middle East. Unfortunately they are doing both.
He's been doing that his entire life - making his problem somebody else's until he gets what he wants. It's called having a tantrum - most folk grow out of it!
