India has introduced its first hydrogen-powered train designed and built in the country in a move to expand clean energy use on its rail network.
  • unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth
    2·
    17 hours ago

    Fair point about the Indian rail network

    Mind you, Hydrogen is actually less dangerous than batteries. When there is a leak, it generally dissipates fairly quickly and fires or similar are quite rare. So in that case… Maybe it would be better if the Indian railways used Hydrogen after all

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      16 hours ago

      Hydrogen is actually less dangerous than batteries

      Tell that to the Hindenburg.

      When there is a leak, it generally dissipates fairly quickly and fires or similar are quite rare

      It’s more the risk of hydrogen embrittlement, which can cause sudden catastrophic failure of their containers.

      And, broadly speaking, it’s not an issue because hydrogen cells aren’t commonly in use for retail civilian consumption.

      As soon as you’ve got a bunch of big tanks zipping around on bumpy tracks at high speeds…