Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "Why Tesla batteries SUCK!!" video.

"I don't like hydrogen." You have several wells in any small town and many huge ones too. Each city well house uses electrolysis to produce sodium hypochlorite (bleach) to make the water potable. A NaCl (table salt) brine tank of water is put through a electrolysis unit. It makes the NaClO (bleach) and H2 which is vented. Many small well houses have fans blowing and a vent. Because initially H2 would build up, and an accident here in Boise literally blew a tech out the roof. He was fine. But could have killed him. In short, we can come up with mechanisms for safety. And it's why those tanks Toyota is using are specially made, not the ones being purposefully blown up. You can make a gasoline or diesel bomb too. Gas stations literally still explode as a quick youtube search will provide some viewing. As far as thermodynamics, the source must be nuclear either fission LFTR or fusion deuterium. But the mediums will likely need hydrogen and/or lithium. As we need to get off fossil fuels due to climate change, and of course finite source exists of fossil fuels remaining cheap. It's important to mention all these challenges. At the same time, this shouldn't make you throw your hands up in defeat. But to attack the challenge head by understanding the difficulties. We can make safety features same with lithium batteries. And that's why we need to do more R&D. If this shit was easy, it would already be available.
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@zachb1706 True. Hence why stations have safety mechanisms to ensure a proper seal lock with dispenser to tank to ensure no leaks happen. More concerning was the recent incident in Norway. No tanks burst, but as Thunderf00t mentioned in the video, appears a leak occurred mixing with air that caused a fire in a short term storage from electrolysis. https://www.toyota.com/mirai/stations.html Again, if this tech was as easy as our combustion technology we use today (and only easy because we've had about 100 years to make it so), the alternatives of battery and H2 would already be as cheap as the 100 advanced combustion technology. So far the lithium battery technology right now has a potential to catch fire and thermal runaway effect either by minor defects or by a vehicle accident. And H2 holding tanks on the electrolysis unit somehow failed to detect a leak that turned explosive. Certainly some kinks that must be dealt with. And ultimately any alternative must deal with affordability.
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I still would go with an H2 fuel cell car. The idea is using nuclear energy to over power the grid, and electrolysis of water to O2 and H2 is fairly efficient at 149 MJ/kg electricity to make 1 kg of hydrogen which contains 141.8 MJ/kg of energy. And based on safety features developed so far, many sensor valves are established for emergency shut off valves if a leak is detected, in addition to emergency jettison method to jet the H2. Compared to lithium batteries that once punctured produce a thermal runaway effect, the vehicle is burning for several hours, putting out lithium vehicles is tough since water ignites lithium. Neither vehicle types based on present technology would I store in a garage. I personally think H2 is better so far, and H2 tanks can be made safer, they're already safer than lithium batteries. For H2 vehicles, I would want to know more about the venting, and then ignition as described by Thunderf00t. Run a test that delays the flame source. I read and watched the tests he shows with comparing a gasoline and H2 vehicle on fire. Part of the problem they had with the bullet, is that it didn't ignite the H2. They literally had to use an incendiary bullet to get it to burn the H2, and it produced the flame jet of burning H2. I would like to see them just puncture the tank, let it sit for a second the use a spark and flame and other ignition sources to find out what happens.
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