• FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
    63·
    1 year ago

    Kind of? Hydrogen can be environmentally friendly, but EVs have big advantages:

    • Creating and burning hydrogen is way less efficient than EVs (almost an order of magnitude)
    • Hydrogen is much cheaper to create in environmentally unfriendly ways (using natural gas etc.)
    • Unless we have massive overproduction of power, the additional energy can be better used to de-carbonify other processes with larger impact
    • xenspidey@lemmy.zipEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      That’s why generating hydrogen during off-peak hours from a nuclear power plant will be very beneficial. It may be less efficient but way better for the environment then lithium

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
        33·
        1 year ago

        You still have all the transport and storage costs associated with hydrogen. I’d need to see a study that actually determines the environmental impact of lithium to believe you.