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Random thought tonight: an internal combustion engine could burn hydrogen or many other substances and produce carbon-free emissions (burning hydrogen creates H2O). It doesn't have to be an electric engine to comply with zero-emission mandates (electric changes the entire nature of the machine and sport).
The conversion to ZEV doesn't have to mean elimination of internal combustion engines. Someone call Elon Musk.
The conversion to ZEV doesn't have to mean elimination of internal combustion engines. Someone call Elon Musk.
I thought 10 years ago it would take off but then went stale.
It’d be pretty damn complex to implement a hydrogen system onto a motocross bike though.
The Shop
They skimmed over one very crutial part.
HOW DO YOU EXTRACT CARBON FROM CO2? CO2 by itself is pretty happy to stick in its form (if i'm not mistaken). How much electricity you consume to produce the oil? The fan on the top of that building does not rotate due to the goodwill of all ecofascist on the earth, i assume.
It is "easy" to make basically anything from anything but you need to account all the energy you need for transport & transformation of stuff. Not speaking about that the production of electricity around the world is not green by any means.
There are four basic issues regarding hydrogen-fueled engines and vehicles: engine backfire and susceptibility of hydrogen to surface ignition, somewhat reduced engine power, high nitric oxide (NOx) emissions, and the problem of on-board storage of the fuel and safety. Although partial solutions have been found to most of these problems, there still is no general consensus of the best method to finally resolve all of these issues.
"Energy can not be created or destroyed". The amount of energy expended to create a zero emission should be factored in. But that would require some common sense of which the governments around the world are short of.
There are some low pressure hydrogen matrix technologies that could be game changers, but nothing on a proof of concept scale.
Pit Row
Just saying, actual pollution stats don’t matter to those psychos. Perception is everything to them.
If the entire state of California produced no carbon emissions, it would decrease global emissions by 1 percent. But we're going to spend billions to get there, in the hopes that others follow, I guess.
Take a look at Munro's Youtube. They are an engineering consultant working with Tesla, and have complete teardowns on there of every Tesla model. The goal is reducing the unique part count and accompanying complexity that Tesla is incurring. This is a goal that most manufacturers have honed in their process over decades, but Tesla, being so new with no historical parts bin to pull from, definitely has competing engineering elements (down to stuff as simple one team may build a component with one fastener type, while a separate component uses a similar-functioned but different one)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br9luPS5VsE&list=PLkiDlGyJnprdFftxAZ85a…
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