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  • You so fucking fail to grasp the concept of relative frequency it’s astonishing. Fourth or fifth time you’ve made the same basic adult numeracy level comprehension error.

    And no, you lied again, there are less than 100 fatalities globally ever from battery cars, and they’re nearly all Teslas. Elon Musk was never a fan of safety checks.

    Hybrids, like I said, are the most dangerous of the non-hydrogen vehicles and cause over twice as many fires as petrol or diesel vehicles, but those are about sixty times as likely proportionately to cause a fire than far-and-away safest vehicles: battery electric vehicles.



  • That’s a lie that you didn’t even google to check.

    Second news story, fifth news story, sixth saying hyundai and toyota paused hydrogen production after another vehicle explosion, hydrogen fueling station explosion.

    Yeah, there are plenty of articles from hydrogen fan sites claiming there are no accidents and no risk of explosions, but it’s a LIE from the hydrogen/fossil fuel industry that you swallowed whole, sorry.

    And the hydrogen vehicles are still really pretty new and not worn out. If you have a hydrogen car, don’t leave it in your garage. But don’t leave it out in the sun either. Leave it in a lock up away from your property and your children, and sell it before it’s old. If you can find an idiot prepared to buy a hydrogen car that’s getting old, that is.







  • You are much more likely to die from gasoline or electrical fires.

    This is like pointing out that you are much more likely to burn yourself cooking than arc welding. It’s true, but it tells you absolutely nothing about how safe arc welding is. Nothing at all.

    The vast majority of hydrogen is used in oil refineries and most of the rest is used in the chemical industry, with plenty of safety manuals and safety processes, and members of the public aren’t allowed anywhere near the operating controls, exactly because it’s extremely volatile.

    Almost zero hydrogen is used in domestic or public settings. There’s a reason for that.

    Again, NASA wrote over 1000 pages on how to deal with hydrogen safely.

    Also, the vast majority of hydrogen is produced from hydrocarbons. It’s carbon free at the point of use, like electricity is, but unlike electricity there’s next to no sustainable production. Battery safety and capacity are coming on in leaps and bounds. (China is developing newer batteries using less rare elements but with greater capacity and much greater charging speed.)

    Hydrogen will always and forever be extremely dangerous.




  • Believe it or not, petrol and diesel have a high ignition point but crucially require plenty of oxygen to ignite and plenty of fuel to keep burning, and a small flaw in the airtightness of a vehicle or engine won’t cause a disaster.

    Not so hydrogen. Hydrogen is a tiny tiny molecule compared with hydrocarbons, and oxygen is very small compared with hydrocarbons. A tiny flaw in a hydrogen vehicle or engine can allow oxygen to spread quickly in the gas, and hydrogen burns freely, rapidly and readily at even tiny doses of oxygen or tiny doses of hydrogen.

    Brand new vehicles and pipes are lovely and undamaged and airtight. But vehicles bump around, and time takes its toll. Massive boom, but later.








  • I’ve found the Starship’s Mage series by Glynn Stewart very entertaining.

    Premise: interstellar flight requires you to have at least one mage on board who uses their magic to move the star ship by a light year but then needs to sleep off magical exhaustion for several hours.

    How and why mages developed and where they fit in society is revealed later.