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lonewolf420 t1_iyesl9x wrote

Reply to comment by CaliforniaF0g in The days of the hydrogen car are already over by Sorin61

any industrial scale algae photobioreactors in working order outside of a lab? sure it might work but at what scale would be needed to run a nations energy grid or consumer car infrastructure?

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CaliforniaF0g t1_iyev7j4 wrote

At scale 10% of the land mass currently devoted to growing soy could produce enough H2 to replace gasoline. So about 8 million acres.

It’s doable but Elon Musk cast his lot with lithium batteries.

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