Look at the efficiency of the energy conversions. It is literally wasting solar.
A…waste of solar…internal ICE hydrogen motors is what these would be used for not fuel cell hydrogen.
How are you wasting solar? Lol this makes no sense. These can be stood up anywhere, you cannot use these as super chargers for batteries…
jabjoe@feddit.uk 9 months ago
SupraMario@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How is it wasted if it completely free energy? You cannot charge up electric cars quickly via solar…hell solar in general isn’t super efficient anyways lol
jabjoe@feddit.uk 9 months ago
No energy is free because there is always installation and maintance cost. Lot’s of people change their cars off solar. Most of a car’s life is sat parked for hours. So slow is fine. My charger has a solar divert function I’m yet to get the solar for. Also, you change a house battery slow and then a car fast from it. Even here in the UK there are people doing it. Not solar all the time, but a lot in summer. House battery changed when your in the office, car overnight from that.
frezik@midwest.social 9 months ago
Because you can put that electricity directly into the grid rather than wasting it making hydrogen.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Lol that’s not the goal, the goal is to charge a car… you’re finding a problem to solve that’s not even in the same area…
frezik@midwest.social 9 months ago
You can use electricity on the grid to charge a car. Not sure if you were aware of that. It’s going to be a whole lot more efficient at it than hydrogen.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No shit. You know you need a substation to power a supercharger grid…you know how many substations just randomly exist in rural areas to power superchargers? And how expensive they are to build and maintain?