Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations
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The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can't make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations will close immediately.

Shell Is Immediately Closing All Of Its California Hydrogen Stations | The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here.::The oil giant is one of the big players in hydrogen globally, but even it can’t make its operations work here. All seven of its California stations will close immediately.

    • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      running off solar

      Because solar is free?

      Guys, we can stop trying to solve climate change, we already have free energy!

        • Patch@feddit.ukEnglish
          6·
          9 months ago

          Solar costs whatever it costs to buy, install and maintain a solar PV farm, which is not nothing.

          If you’re going to build a solar PV farm, you’re obviously going to want to sell the power you generate in whatever way is most profitable.

          At the moment, it’s still magnitudes more profitable to sell solar back to the grid than it is to feed it into an inefficient hydrolysis plant, create a load of hydrogen and oxygen, and then move it by leaky tanker somewhere to sell it.

          • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            9 months ago

            These are designed to be setup and turned into fueling stations, not creating the hydrogen and shipping it elsewhere. You still need substations near superchargers, which requires a lot of power lines to be run. In the middle of nowhere they’re pointless to build.

        • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
          51·
          9 months ago

          Jesus, of course it’s not free. Solar panels are not free, the land you put ten on is not free, construction is not free and the infrastructure needed to supply energy during the nigh (storage or another source of energy) is not free. How is this not obvious?

          • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            9 months ago

            Lol yes because a super charge station is free…and so is the land and the wires and the sub station to get it out in the middle of nowhere… totally more economical to put in a fucking substation for superchargers in the middle of nowhere than to use solar hydrogen lol

            • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
              3·
              9 months ago

              WTF are you talking about? So solar if free because ‘solar hydrogen’? You’re not making any sense.

              • SupraMario@lemmy.worldEnglish
                11·
                9 months ago

                Solar energy is free, I’m not the one that’s made a claim that it’s not. I’m also not the one that has zero understanding on how superchargers work…all of you keep thinking they can just dump one in the middle of rural America and it’ll just magically work. You don’t seem to understand the huge amount of power draw these things have.

                • ExLisper@linux.communityEnglish
                  2·
                  9 months ago

                  You don’t seem to understand that the only thing solar energy does for free is to heat the ground which is kind of useless for moving cars,