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Electrifying roads with catenaries!? Imagine the traffic disruption while those are installed! On all lanes of the motorway or just the one that gets blocked often...? We haven't got one down our road yet so the coal man cant deliver! ;) Utter madness, that is what makes rail so costly to build and maintain, and why hydrogen should be used instead.

Lets do what these fine people are doing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-59399702 We will have to hurry up installing hydrogen refuelling ready for EU vehicles, oh and once done we wont need acres of charger parking and miles of cabling. Bu**er the end-user efficiency difference!

A bit higher than 10 HSD, I got spiked around 13.5, so been there done that..

Agree Expat, that's why the deal with Shell which fell thru was so important to them

Quite, they've reneged before. It's just a greenwash to buy in the future.

The same was said of BA and Shell..

Here is a reason to buy and hold:

https://matthey.com/en/markets/energy-generation-and-storage/hydrogen

This will run out of steam soon. Already up to the level when Shell pulled out. Best look elsewhere for other meteoric rises..

Hydrogen? Absolutely batteries-not-included, hydrogen is the future!

Windmills were used for hundreds of years. Yes they require maintenance, yes they wear out and evolve but they aren't toxic.

I agree that large scale solar installations should only be on desert areas, not covering good soils.

History? - if there any humans left to write it - wont treat us kindly if we replace a planet damaging fossil fuel based economy with a SMR based one. Do we want to add Crawley, Bristol, Solihull, Ipswich.. (i.e. just about every major town in the UK to get the scale) to the list including Three Mile Island...Chernobyl...Fukushima. Just imagine the planning debate! NIMBY!

Sadly SMR are not fusion reactors... still waiting for those to work!

SMRs are just small, quick and dirty fission reactors with the potential to be deployed in a back yard near you...

By 2035 at the earliest!

Meanwhile several 100s of Gb of new windfarms could be built at a fraction of the cost and risk.

So just what are RR doing with Hydrogen or Ammonia???

Blame: humans clearing land for grazing and growing ruminant food crops on a vast scale.

Well here is one considered opinion about that:-
https://www.ianfairlie.org/news/can-small-modular-reactors-and-or-advanced-nuclear-reactors-help-tackle-climate-change/

Great value in this infrastructure

I think there is an element of GC not wanting to take sides over the car issue.
Current figures from his presentation are very telling though:

UK electricity grid: 300TWh
UK fuel usage : 650TWh
UK Gas grid: 900TWh

On the cars issue, Graham's subtle point (c.35min): "Zero emission all over the world" offers great insight. Countries which lack the sophistication of an energy grid like the UK's will need a different approach. We saw the limitations of even the USA system in recent months. Such countries will have to rely on conventional distribution networks, e.g. fuel stations. I still feel that is the way to go instead of upgrading electricity networks and building charging infrastructure everywhere!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-58554331

lots of pollution from waste burned and discard here too...

Lets hope he has a good scientific or engineering adviser in the family..
Safe Hands
or
Clean Hands
or even a brother-in-law called Hans

https://h2.live/en/

how about the international heavy goods market

Narrower than expected losses at Fuel Cell and its up 25%... that is the nature of the game... if only it wasnt so serious.