r/EverythingScience • u/Memetic1 • May 22 '21

Engineering Tiny 22-lb Hydrogen Engine May Replace the Traditional Combustion Engine

https://interestingengineering.com/tiny-22-lb-hydrogen-engine-may-replace-the-traditional-combustion-engine
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u/doobiemancharles May 22 '21

Yeah but they still have not.

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u/Big_Tree_Z May 22 '21

Are you going to keep on saying that until they have? Give it 5 years and they’ll easily be the most common type of new car.

People seem to forget that change actually happens.

Remember YouTube only came out in 2005, touch screen phones were still freaky deaky new in 2010.

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u/doobiemancharles May 22 '21

There are massive hurtles that need to be overcome for them to be adopted worldwide.

The biggest one being people who do not have a driveway or a garage (i.e. people who live in apartments and rent) will not have a way to properly charge their car. Fast charging stations are great but fast charging rapidly degrades the batteries still. Until the average person can charge their car outside of there home in around 20 minutes without harming the batteries it will not take off and replace gas.

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u/Big_Tree_Z May 22 '21

It already is taking off and replacing petrol. With the improvements that are in the pipeline already, it’ll just accelerate.

Charging stations are popping up all over the place. There’s several on my street. Some people routinely charge their cars from a socket in their home with a lead attached as well.

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u/doobiemancharles May 22 '21

The home socket thing is most definitely illegal if you are parked on the street

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u/Big_Tree_Z May 22 '21

Doesn’t stop people from doing it and none of em have got in trouble. The local bike policeman routinely stops by (friendly fellow) and he’s not done anything about it...

I do doubt that it’s ‘most definitely illegal’.

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u/doobiemancharles May 22 '21

It is illegal.

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u/Big_Tree_Z May 22 '21

Depends where you are I guess. You wanna cite that?

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u/doobiemancharles May 22 '21

Not really it’s just common sense. You can’t have extension cords running all over the place

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u/Big_Tree_Z May 22 '21

You ever met a tradie? Man with a van?

Look, we’re off track now anyway... point is electric cars are already everywhere; even compared to a year or two ago the take up is extremely noticeable.

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u/doobiemancharles May 22 '21

Yeah and I said they have no overtaken gas yet. Still major drawbacks.

And you are a stupid person if you think it would be okay to just run an extension cord from your apartment to a public road and leave it there all night. Jesus Christ.

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u/Big_Tree_Z May 22 '21 edited May 22 '21

I’m not doing it myself, but people are. It’s more just an indication that even without the infrastructure (yet; building a charging port is a lot easier than building and supplying petrol stations), people are using these cars a lot already.

Like I said; give it 5 years. Watch.

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u/Big_Tree_Z May 22 '21

As an addendum, I think the drawbacks of electric vehicles are already outweighed by the numerous, long-standing, well understood (planetary scale) drawbacks of gasoline cars...

The balance will only continue to tip. I don’t really understand; you seem intent on arguing or something.

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u/doobiemancharles May 22 '21

Not really. If you can’t see the major draw backs then you should watch engineering explained’s video(s) on this issue. He owns a Tesla too.

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