Ben Richardson, CEO at SulNOx, confident they can cost-effectively decarbonise commercial shipping. Watch the video here.
Moral compass. Get your facts straight. You have been fine with the Cobalt being dug up for the Oil and Gas industry using it to remove Sulphur for diesel and petrol for 20 years! Lithium is dug out of the ground with IRON ore. What rare metals? Your in 2000's keep up. The current batteries Lithium Iron chemistry use none. Cobalt is used at trace levels in lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide. There is a thing call momentum look it up! Try and fillip a BEV. Centre of mass is very low. We are in 2021 by the way. Not the FUD 1990's. Lithium low energy process as patent by TESLA is coming from local USA location. https://seekingalpha.com/article/4377181-teslas-lithium-mining-plans-take-pinch-of-salt
Interestingly, all the so called experts said that "a re-usable rocket was impossible" until SpaceX nailed it!
As I have said before. PHE has it's place. Please stop spreading FUD.
DrAI can you explain why TESLA models built in 2012 are still working with a capacity of over 70% after most covering 200K miles then? Lithium is not or ever has been a scare element in the world. Hydrogen you use once and batteries have a life cycle over over 4,000 using Lithium Iron. Every bit off the batteries can be recycled. It will take 40 years to replace the ICE fleet. By which time it will be cheaper to strip the old batteries down and put the materials back into a new one. PHE has it's place in creating Hydrogen out of waste plastics. JCB system fails on the stuff coming from Australia by cargo ship which burns the most low grade bunker fuel. Electric motors have higher torque for it's weight than any combustion engines. :o)
Generation plant often decide to explode in both Gas and Oil and as it's so common. No body thinks its news. Batteries on the other hand..... ? First reports suggest that they were running the kit without the cooling system. RTFM comes to mind. Just like idiots in Tesla cars. They blame the car rather than themselves. Each time it has been investigated it had been User Error. But, that doesn't get clicks on the website does it?
oz_invester: I believe TESLA has already stated that the Flat bed cover can be a Slated PV. Not sure if this will be an option or standard on the Cyber Truck. We will have to wait until 2021 to find out. :o)
julianb1234: The last thing you should put on an Electrical Fire is water! It is time for the fire department to get there act together. Chubb Fire (UK) will advise. As they have the fire systems on static energy and are also insured for it. It's about time the fire department grows up as listen to the private company that has offered their advice on the procedure. So, just for interest which of the extinguish types should you use on a Electrical fire? Water, CO2. Halogen or other? The Stats for EV fires are national and nothing to do with TESLA. They just happen to have fewer than any other EV OEM by the numbers.
julianb1234: Keep up. TESLA will be using 4680 which will bring the count down to 960. You complete ignored the Toshibia/Apple battery news that I thought you would be happy? No, ignore that as well. "Ammonia is already widely transported by ships" its the most wasteful way of using energy. In affect stop this process would remove one of the most energy intensive processes from the world. Allowing an inefficient processes to continue is mad.
Hydrogen has always been a technology looking for a problem to solve. It will be sensible in some cases, as I have always stated. With regards to fires in cars. Look at real stats. Even taking scaling the numbers correctly. Your considerable more likely to have a fire in ICE car than EV. Facts are there in black and white..
julianb1234:
Read the original reply.
"You can produce it in desert locations near the sea where sunlight and water abound and because it is a highly dense form of energy storage it can be easily and cheaply transported by ships to where it is needed, much as oil is currently, with the fuel for shipping being the same fuel it is transporting, a completely CO2 free product. And guess what, Saudi Arabia is already partnering with various companies to develop exactly that sort of infrastructure."
What are we trying to do? Use less oil. Why would shipping Ammonia using Oil to move the ship be a good answer? When you can use High Voltage DC as per China or this original scheme from here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desertec many years ago?
You have a Mobile phone? Do you not worry that it will explode in your pocket?? The Battery management of that is more concern to me whilst in a car.
julianb1234: Hydrogen does have its place in the energy chain. :o) It better than burning stuff!!! Otherwise, we would have not invested in PHE. However, HM GOV fixation on producing Hydrogen over any other fuel is worrying. Its expensive to produce at present and we have to pressurize it to realistically to make it dense enough utilise. Much prefer the option to use Chilled Air for storage which they are using in 250MW storage in Manchester being deployed. Its reasonable small and utilises the Gas industry tech - 50 years. One wonders why the Petrol Chemical crew have not be more support of it? As they could change the Energy sink of refineries to one of National Grid size electrical storage using compressed Air that would be reasonable costs at scale. https://highviewpower.com/news_announcement/highview-power-breaks-ground-on-250mwh-cryobattery-long-duration-energy-storage-facility/ When has commonsense prevailed?
You do wonder why they are not looking at using the same trick for large tankers? Using the diesel tanks as the cold store. You also may have notice in the news that your wish for a 5 min chargeable battery has been answer by Apple & Toshiba using titanium batteries. These have been used in hearing aids for years and don't have issues of looking after the battery. They take any abuse and don't tend to get upset. The only real issue is that the storage energy is not as high as the Lithium/Nickle. But, they should be able to produce a 200 mile range and a 6 min charge to full. Happy New to you Julian. I think we both are in the renewable park. Just perhaps at different ends of it. Economics will no doubt make the choice. :o)
julianb1234: Give up you are looking silly now. First you complain that EV don't do high mileage. Which surprisingly they do. Average is 100 miles x 356 is 35.6K the domestic is 12K. After saying they only last 3 years you are complaining there are not enough to recycle? Make your mind up! Happy Xmas to the rest of you.
Where are you getting the crap from? There a thousands of high mileage EV out there in the wild. All the batteries will be recycled from now on as the market is just starting to get supply after 15 years! As its cheaper than digging out the materials again. This then puts them into the renewable cycle. The batteries made now are likely to outlast the car/van itself. You think UPS is buy 10K EV's for fun? Or Amazon?
julianb1234: Might be that on old tech? Not on the new. Most have an 8-10 year 75% warranty. Tesla has the battery stats to prove that statement false. FUD put out by a certain industry. I wonder who that could be?
julianb1234: That tends to sound like the Oil and Gas industry speaking. :o) Batteries "Toshiba" has state that they have a solid battery. It will take time 2025. But, it will come. That strikes out the charging time and fire issues. The capacities are already creeping to 300-400w hrs per kg by adding sodium into the mix. Even now, you don't have to go to a petrol station to charge an EV and when you pop to a Level 3 station 80% refill in 20 mins. As most normal people would need to do that on loo stop basis. Lorries drivers are required by law to stop at least every 4 hours. So, you have opportunity to charge. Different yes. But, certainly not real issue. The big stuff may be? But the CO2 to fuel looks like a process that could become local. As there is nothing really that couldn't be completed in large Ship. Interesting times we live in....
Valuation-it-is: don't understand the comment? You input 100w and get 500w back. Yes, that using the thermal difference. So, it should be 4 times less than using a gas boiler? You will need to ensure that the RAD's or underfloor pipes are correctly size for the heat loss of the building. As the typical heat is at 55' rather than 70'C. Not having ago. Just interest in why you think its not ready. It would be better to use the underground type as it performs better in all weather conditions. But, this really can only be completed on new builds as the ground works digging up the 150 m down pipe is expensive unless you are doing a complete complex.
Using a ground or air heat pump use 1kW of electric to 3kW of heat. If that were not enough. Then the efficiency problem kills hydrogen accept/unless its on a outlier case. Such as taking plastics waste and creating feed stock hydrogen for chemical processes like creating Airplane fuel from CO2.
https://theconversation.com/hydrogen-cars-wont-overtake-electric-vehicles-because-theyre-hampered-by-the-laws-of-science-139899#:~:text=The%20reason%20why%20hydrogen%20is,called%20the%20energy%20vector%20transition.
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-iron-based-catalyst-converts-carbon-dioxide-into-jet-fuel
Quite simply hydrogen has missed the boat in my view. It was promoted heavily by the Petrol Chemical crew to stop electrification. Remember they earn $2.3 trillion a day in profits for every day they can delay. Unfortunately for them the 2035 kill switch has now been levelled in cars at least.