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Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. (insideevs.com)

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Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations will close immediately.

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[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 26 points 9 months ago

So what I’m hearing is, if I build my own electrolysis station driven by a solar panel array, there’s quickly going to be a glut of extremely cheap hydrogen cars coming out of So.Cal…

That's the fun thing - after you make the hydrogen you have to compress it to 10,000 PSI and cool it to -40 to actually get it into the car. And make sure the pumps, pipes and cooling gear are all made of materials that won't be destroyed by exposure to high pressure hydrogen.

It'd probably be a lot cheaper and easier to gut the car and replace the fuel cell and tanks with batteries and a charger.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 9 months ago

I've never done any of my projects because they were cheap or good. I understand how to do proper engineering considering I have a couple years of experience, and understand what I don't know and the fact that it's dangerous.

fuck it, we ball

[-] Zoomboingding@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

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[-] zurohki@aussie.zone 2 points 9 months ago

I'm not saying building your own home filling station is impossible, just that it's probably really expensive and a terrible idea.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

That's the spirit!

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