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.
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.
Solar costs whatever it costs to buy, install and maintain a solar PV farm, which is not nothing.
If you're going to build a solar PV farm, you're obviously going to want to sell the power you generate in whatever way is most profitable.
At the moment, it's still magnitudes more profitable to sell solar back to the grid than it is to feed it into an inefficient hydrolysis plant, create a load of hydrogen and oxygen, and then move it by leaky tanker somewhere to sell it.
These are designed to be setup and turned into fueling stations, not creating the hydrogen and shipping it elsewhere. You still need substations near superchargers, which requires a lot of power lines to be run. In the middle of nowhere they're pointless to build.
Jesus, of course it's not free. Solar panels are not free, the land you put ten on is not free, construction is not free and the infrastructure needed to supply energy during the nigh (storage or another source of energy) is not free. How is this not obvious?
Lol yes because a super charge station is free...and so is the land and the wires and the sub station to get it out in the middle of nowhere... totally more economical to put in a fucking substation for superchargers in the middle of nowhere than to use solar hydrogen lol
Solar energy is free, I'm not the one that's made a claim that it's not. I'm also not the one that has zero understanding on how superchargers work...all of you keep thinking they can just dump one in the middle of rural America and it'll just magically work. You don't seem to understand the huge amount of power draw these things have.
Yep, that's what you've been saying. Solar generates hydrogen for free. Just like that. You just park you car in the sun and it moves. Unlike a supercharger which has to be build hydrogen is just there. No buildings needed. Exactly what you said. Word for word.