Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.comp.os.windows-11 Subject: Re: Pickup trucks for city boys Date: 27 Aug 2025 03:38:23 GMT Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <106mke5$1di32$1@dont-email.me> <107n9cb$12hcd$28@dont-email.me> <107ng5n$15rfj$1@dont-email.me> <107oprl$1f6pb$4@dont-email.me> <107pm1g$1l5v2$1@dont-email.me> <107rbde$20k71$20@dont-email.me> <107v689$3219t$1@dont-email.me> <1080mev$3fk4r$1@dont-email.me> <1081cin$3kivt$1@dont-email.me> <2W2pQ.10557$uCGc.6020@fx14.iad> <108428t$7mtq$4@dont-email.me> <108aefl$1n7i9$9@dont-email.me> <108hddu$3bl64$2@dont-email.me> <108leod$b9i7$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net I8RI4Ku0TEH+8XJAz4VRBwFZKNNAV+40K2uMeHiGC9J2ttQ1zQ Cancel-Lock: sha1:GwqxE1J21LlDYJk1npSXeftVvAE= sha256:QEtT1GhhVpCgKXDF7ewgeq5eefdCL935XUpt28xIjBw= User-Agent: Pan/0.162 (Pokrosvk) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:72368 alt.comp.os.windows-11:23029 On Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:07:57 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote: > Or you can go electrical and have more of both efficiency and > environmental protection... You can also go to hydrogen and some > Japanese company has a very efficient engine. I would prefer to that a > fuel cell producing electricity to keep the battery charged with the > excess going to the electrical motors that drive the vehicle. Hydrogen bomb? One of the companies I worked for produced aircraft strobe lights among other products. They were quartz glass which requires a hydrogen flame for blowing where soda glass only needs oxyacetylene. We had industrial LOX tanks, acetylene tanks, all sorts of solvents but we needed to get a permit to have a hydrogen tube trailer spotted on the premises. You could see the bureaucrat silently adding 'bomb'. Ironically if anything was going to blow the place up due to a leak it would be the acetylene. The tube composition has improved since the early '70s and the allowable pressure for transport has increased but the actual weight of the hydrogen was a fraction of the weight of the tube trailer. That's the problem for hydrogen, The problem for straight electric is charging. Many older residences still have 60A panels and bringing them up to modern standards would be very expensive. Then there are the renters or even single family homes that only have on street parking.