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The Case for Nuclear Cargo Ships

Cars That Think

At the same time, it’s becoming apparent that alternative-fuel solutions we’re looking at have big drawbacks, and that producing these fuels will take a lot of green power that will be needed to replace coal and gas on shore. Ammonia, meanwhile, has half the energy density of diesel fuel, so ships would need twice as much of it.

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Naysayer Alert – the hydrogen red herring

My Electric Car

Why not simply use the electricity directly to charge electric cars via the already available distribution network – the electricity grid? Every time there is a conversion of energy from one form to another there are efficiency losses – a concept known as ‘energy vector transition’. The Conversation [link] accessed 4/6/2020.