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Originally Posted by soundman98

hydrogen is a fools errand. electric has a higher viability, despite the limited rare earth materials it currently requires. all the tanks have a hard expiration date 10 years after production. hydrogen leaks out of everything. and currently, the best way to get it is by burning water using natural gas.
while there are methods to use solar/wind power to break down water, they don't appear to be extremely viable at this time. water might be plentiful, but there was a time where oil was considered plentiful as well. once it's gone, it ain't coming back. and water is a little more important than oil...



in california. in the midwest, i'm currently working on 3 new houses. solar capability is outright unheard of in my area. there's 3 houses in 200 miles that have solar panels on their roofs. solar is mostly state-funded feel-good projects around me. the weather is too crappy here to get any meaningful gains out of it. and no one is cleaning the panels off in the dead of winter to keep them operating at peak efficiency.

i'm a supporter of diversity. i don't think there is any reason to outright abandon the established ICE methods simply because we just recently came up with a viable alternative.

I think internal combustion survival will be determined more by manufacturers than consumers or environmental policies.