H2 the Rescue | How a Hydrogen-Powered Rescue Truck Helps First Responders
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2023
- Mounting an effective response to natural disasters or emergency situations often comes down to having the right vehicles and equipment on standby. This week we look at a prototype rescue truck that relies on clean power technology to let first responders hit the ground running.
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How will it get refueled? What infrastructure needs to be made to support it? 180 miles really isn’t that far when it comes to natural disasters, too. This is not me dissing the idea and work that is being done. I am asking these questions to understand the thought process and what is being done to solve the above concerns.
EXACTLY ‼️💯
These idiots never mention that.
ICE Forever ‼️ (Internal Combustion Engine)
Show up with a tube truck and fill it back up. They transport hydrogen with trucks all over the place everyday. Also hydrogen is safer than gas. People seem to look at something that happened 100 years ago and cant grasp that we figured out how to handle this stuff safely since. Even if you get a hydrogen leak it doesnt really do much. Its so light that is gone within seconds. With gas if there is a leak it goes all over the ground and then if there is a spark the whole vehicle burns down.
This is beyond ridiculous, even for the U.S. government. There is virtually no H2 refueling infrastructure in the U.S., and where it does exist, reliability of supply and operation are marginal in the best of times, and will be far worse in the event of a natural disaster.
The "water supply" claim is equally foolish. A minimum supply of fresh water per person per day is about 4 liters. This vehicle will produce that much water for every 0.4 kg of hydrogen that it consumes. In terms of useful energy, 0.4 kg of hydrogen is about the same as 0.4 gallons of gasoline, a bit less compared to diesel fuel. The truck would have to burn prodigious amounts of hydrogen to support any significant number of people, far more than the same number of people would require for energy supplies. The truck should support a filtration / RO system to PURIFY water, not rely on the trickle of water it will make by burning hydrogen.
The right equipment is a diesel generator