Comments by "MacAdvisor" (@MacAdvisor) on "I rode North America's FIRST HYDROGEN TRAIN" video.

  1. "(B)atteries are environmentally friendly?"  @FkCCPspiesinYT  Compared with the release of additional carbon into the atmosphere, batteries are like pure mountain spring water. Moreover, the environmental issue with the mining of the materials is mostly due to lack of regulation and greed, not an inherent part of obtaining those materials. Moreover, batteries are rapidly developing and away from rare earth metals. I'd much, much rather have a battery powered train than a diesel one.
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  2. What is the Canadian term for boondoggle or scam? First, hydrogen is all-but universally made not from electrolysis (the process of breaking water into its component hydrogen and oxygen with electricity, NOT combining them back together as stated in the video), but is a byproduct of oil. Hydrogen puts the hydro in hydrocarbon.Thus, in widespread use, hydrogen is a carbon fuel. It just doesn't release the carbon at the point of use, but during creation during distillation. Second, Mike, while there may be a company in Quebec that makes hydrogen through electrolysis to supply this train, it is doing so at a greater cost than the hydrogen from oil. The needed electricity is much more expensive. Taking that electricity and storing it in a battery is vastly more efficient. So, the use of hydrogen costs more money, making the train more expensive to operate. Third, hydrogen is wildly difficult to store. Moving it about, from where the hydrogen is created to storing it on the train likely involves significant loss and very expensive tech. Again, moving the electricity from the dam to the train is so, so much easier by wires, most of which already exist, than building new distribution tubes for volatile hydrogen. Again, not cost effective. Fourth, hydrogen is VERY explosive. The tiniest spark can cause big explosions. Think Hindenburg. Think of that train burning in but a few minutes thanks to the hydrogen on top. A rail accident with that train could be disaster of unimagined proportions. Think of terrorists getting ahold of that much hydrogen and fashioning bomb. So, this train uses an expensive, oil-derived fuel, that is expensive to make, inefficient and dangerous to move about, and adds unnecessary and extra layers of unneeded tech. It is a Rube Goldberg train. Hydrogen is the fuel of the future and always will be. It is too impractical to be used. You got punked by some PR person.
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  3.  @noseboop4354  A battery based on sodium chloride, basic table salt, replacing lithium is already getting ready to into production. We have nuclear power already, just not a specific type, while battery technology is beginning to move forward in leaps and bounds. There is much money to made in improving batteries, not so much nuclear power production.
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