Nobody seriously invested what was needed in the Hydrogen economy,and now & #39;electric batteries VS hydrogen fuel cells& #39; in vehicles has been resoundingly won by EVs. This didn& #39;t have to be this way. (1/n)
As the world shifts to batteries from hydrocarbons,we are exchanging one ecological disaster with another. Batteries are complicated.Mining for crucial metals like cobalt, lithium, nickel,copper is never going to be eco-friendly. (2/n)
DR Congo,Madagascar, Philippines already have conflicts that have killed & displaced many, ranging from thousands to millions. The new "gold rush" for https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔋" title="Batterie" aria-label="Emoji: Batterie">-making metals mean Western countries,China are going to take a special interest in them (4/n)
Precisely because mining these metals is the opposite of eco-friendly,even if countries like Canada has these stuff in abundance, mining costs will skyrocket in order to comply with strict environment protection regulations.(5/n)
The result will be a mad rush to developing countries having such metals,with lax or rarely enforced environment protection rules. You see where I am going with this?(6/n)
This is why governments,including countries like Turkey,need to invest in hydrogen fuel cells, particularly in reduction of costs of hydrogen transportation+storage,and not be held hostile to the inevitable geo-politics of https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔋" title="Batterie" aria-label="Emoji: Batterie">manufacturing. (7/n)
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