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Originally Posted by snootchiebootchies
My point is that using hydrogen in internal combustion engines to partially or wholly displace fossil fuels can result in efficiency gains that offsets the net energy loss from the production of hydrogen. This is easily proven, as per the videos I embedded earlier.
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A little more detail with basic percentages, sources, etc would aid greatly in understanding what you mean when you say "can result in efficiency gains that offsets the net energy loss from the production of hydrogen".
You lose 20-30% right off the top, and hydrogen IC engines are not that much more efficient than gasoline ones to offset that.
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Originally Posted by snootchiebootchies
If the world can get rid of all internal combustion engines and replace them with electric motors and replace all furnaces and boilers with electric heaters, I would understand better why you feel there is no place at all for hydrogen combustion. But I don't see that happening at all.
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Who said anything about "all"? As I've said in cases where efficiency doesn't matter (i.e. heating) it may find use. I never said there's no place at all for hydrogen combustion.
Just that it makes no sense in cars.