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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. (insideevs.com)

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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.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 36 points 9 months ago (12 children)

What, you don't see how great it is to have two separate sets of infrastructure with little overlap in order to have a less efficient solution pushed by the oil industry?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (11 children)

That's it of course isn't it the hydrogen is generated through fracking so they're just trying to maintain the existing business model.

That alone is the reason that no one should have ever paid attention to it. It wasn't ever intended to actually work it was supposed to just look like it might work so that they would continue to get some money.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I am not familiar with it, would you mind telling me how much works? Why would Hydrogen not be sourced from ocean water and then compressed/stored? How did fracking come in, it seems like a chore to have made it so

[–] Natanael@slrpnk.net 5 points 9 months ago

It can be through electrolysis, but it is almost never done that way. It's less efficient than simply using the grid to charge batteries, in that usecase the ONLY benefit it has its energy density (and that might not last either).

In practice the main source is as a byproduct from refining fossil fuel like oil or gas which is separated and collected.

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