...that if the US Chamber dislikes something then it's a good thing for individuals and small businesses.

Give me a break. Ellison's not going to live there. Buying anything from Oracle besides database engines is as smart as doing business with HCA. Run away.

Dont know why Toyota ever bothered with it. Hydrogen fuel for passenger cars was obviously a smokescreen by oil/gas companies to slow the acceptance of threatening EVs. It's unlikely to ever fuel small vehicles unless its distributed in compound form (remember PowerBalls?) and it's not looking good for heavy vehicles or even aircraft lately. Generating free H from renewables isn't efficient and distribution and storage are major problems. Who committed Toyota to it? Hope they've been fired.

Quick changes result in issues, such. But utilities must shift from focusing on selling power to distributing it, something they're supposed to be good at. They'll only do the right things when it costs them not to.

More than anything, this is an opportunity to decentralize power production for good. Creating cheaper but less efficient storage systems is part of it, as is creating permanent incentives to shift usage to maximum production times. We've been told to raise our thermostats during hot middays so often its automatic, but now we may need to freeze the house at 3pm and coast through the night with little A/C.

Good points but still left out a whole list of bummers—nanoparticles of whatever's inside the engine/exhaust system, much smaller than PM2.5. Finding iron and platinum and stuff inside peoples' brains which traveled directly from the sinuses is unlikely to be eventually judged harmless. ICEs are just going to have to go. Catalyzing and particle capture just isn't enough.

But what I really came to ask is, assuming the reaction is something like CO2 + 2(H2O) -> CH3OH + O+O+O, is that leftover oxygen mostly O2 or plenty of O3? Can O3 be easily catalyzed in a CO2 to methanol plant into O2 ? Also, I'm assuming the H is coming from water. What's the source of all that water? Presumably it'll need for a start water with the least impurities widely available, that is, likely potable water.

How about "Urge tech companies to stop squeezing coders until nobody skilled is willing to write code"?

That's where the real problem lies. It always comes down to management. Sometimes there's a long lag, but it always goes back there.

Series hybrids are a better way. Yeah, you can call them "range-extended EVs", but it doesnt change what they are/can be. Is there a little loss in efficiency when burning fuel compared to parallel hybrids? Maybe. But they're simpler and in the long run easier to maintain than parallels. They're better suited to use on battery alone when desired. Mostly, they allow increased design and update flexibility. You could buy the electric-only version, the large battery version with generator, or the small battery version and the manufacturer could easily alter their line to produce whichever sells the best right now.

Maybe that's part of the reason manufacturers have avoided them—lock-in is more difficult and selling you an entire new car when you only want a bigger genset is what they prefer.

...abounds.

"I kind of look at it as if they're sticking a warehouse or a factory here."

Which is nearly the opposite. Solar & wind projects almost guarantee there'll only be farm-like "hustle and bustle", unlike factories and warehouses.

Has anyone else noticed all the crazy traffic and smog and bright lights all night in the vicinity of wind & solar farms? How about all the bar fights and notorious brothels? And dont forget the fly ash ponds and toxic tailings and petroleum leaks that will spill into the waterways and reservoirs and poison wells.

HP sells unwanted and vulnerable stuff in its printers, then wants to force you to pay continuously to protect yourself. Sounds like the mob to me. Traditional protection racket. RICO should apply.

Oh, and just in case nobody's bothering to craft printer attacks, they announce that printer attacks can work.

Maybe it's not a good idea but my first impulse on reading "...took to X..." is that those detractors lack general competence. Show me solid arguments from people not inclined to blow hot air on Twitter.

Not just that, but a systems approach where parking lots (and large flat-top buildings, of course) are covered with PVs. Park in the shade, charge the car. Works well for at least three fourths of the populated area in the US. Merchants, too... membership clubs can apply a little more of that annual fixed fee to maintaining the parking lot infrastructure and sell any surplus. Build energy-intensive facilities next to big box/parking lot stores.

Good points.

Could it be successful? Sure. But there are thousands of hurdles to overcome first, many of which have been addressed here.

The worst statement was the one about being a viable alternative to EVs. If it breathes air and burns something it's not going to be zero emissions. If it burns H2 it could avoid producing much CO2, depending on the source of the hydrogen. But it will almost surely still spit out some nanoparticles of something—including materials making up the engine itself—and we're just beginning to see where those end up, no good estimates of how much damage they might do to living things including humans. How often in the last 60 years have the "safe" levels of some pollutants been determined scientifically to be higher than originally thought? Very rarely. Any long term solution will not depend on combusting something with air. Oh, did they forget how burning stuff at high temperatures produces nitrogen oxides?

There was a company years ago that tried to sell PowerBalls, plastic ping pong like balls containing a compound that upon exposure to water released hydrogen. It was a very good idea with one major problem. It required the collection of the "spent" solution (and empty split balls) from the vehicles' tanks to be recycled into fresh PowerBalls when refilled with fresh ones. Although a huge change, since for most gasoline dispensing stations trucks already visit to supply fuel, a two-way trip is already occurring with one way being empty. Notice that for neither electricity nor natural gas is that true. The PowerBall sort of thing remains the only good type of solution to distributing and intermediately storing hydrogen for automobiles or trucks. Recent claims of discoveries of natural sources of hydrogen gas reek of the same sort of cheerleading (at best) as this device, meaning hydrogen remains a temporary carrier, not a source, of energy.

Best outcome? Lightweight, compact, low-maintenance, fairly efficient power sources for long trips in series hybrids or "range extended EVs". 50hp is easily enough for autos, including those with 400hp of electric motors. As stated, such an engine optimized to run at one or a few RPM values can achieve relatively high efficiencies and longer life than something that has to run between 500 and 7,500 rpm on demand.

Ok, now do the right thing and cover the roof and parking lot with PVs and/or wind turbines. More than a convenient site to charge, Walmart has extensive exposed surface area ripe for energy capture.

"...build a 'Bitcoin City' at the base of a volcano."

Sounds appropriate.

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