It probably has to do with some of the engineering problems with containing hydrogen.
It definitely has a lot to do with influential people bandwagoning onto Elon Musk et al. trashing EVs

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Every tech has problems.

"Oh we couldn't possibly make an electric vehicle because there's nowhere to recharge it"

There are problems storing hydrogen but we've been working on mitigating those problems.

Australia has $230b worth of hydrogen projects on the board. Do you think no one involved in any of those projects has realised that it's not possible to store hydrogen?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Do you think no one involved in any of those projects has realised that it’s not possible to store hydrogen?

You say that as if it is completely ridiculous but have you seen how many companies jumped onto impractical technologies like the hyperloop or self-driving cars or even replacing half their workforce with LLM-based AIs?

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 6 months ago

Who jumped into the hyperloop?

Self driving cars are going to be worth infinite money. Great investment.

Sure some companies were over-exuberant about LLMs, but not to the same scale of national infrastructure we're talking about.

Failed investments are not evidence that all investments will fail, but large investments are an indicator of economic viability.

[–] ulterno@lemmy.kde.social 0 points 6 months ago

Do you think...

No I'm not thinking about that.
I'm just trying to reason between public sentiment and over here, trying to say that public sentiment has less to do with actual technical viability and more to do with random comments from influential people.

There are actually, many directions in which people are trying to find ways to make the H~2~ storage viable for specific applications..