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Originally Posted by ASCII Man
Says who?
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https://4thgeneration.energy/life-cy...s-of-hydrogen/
It's not strictly true saying "oil", as it's hydrocarbons, and you can get natural gas/methane and coal without oil. Around 95% of the worlds hydrogen is produced using hydrocarbons.
However, it's not that simple. Hydrogen production from hydrocarbons is non-polluting (you don't burn anything to get the hydrogen). But it does have a carbon footprint larger than you'd expect, and a CO2 contributor.
You can produce hydrogen by splitting water using electricity. However the required amount of electricity is so high that it becomes much more viable to just...charge the car with that electricity. Which is why we have more electric cars than hydrogen cars, despite hydrogen seeming like a better option on the face of it (fast refills, like petrol).
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F1 (and all motorsports) should decouple themselves from road relevance and just concentrate on being a sport.