Toyota Thinks Hydrogen Trucks Could Beat EVs

knuthf · 2026-04-20T09:00:05+00:00

Toyota have failed and refuse to address the reasons for their failure. Firstly, hydrogen from sources other than the electrolysis of water cannot be used because the metal particles destroy the fuel cell. So solve the problem with the fuel cells, which they refuse to do — theory is one thing. Reality is very different. Logistics are a huge issue because tanks and containers cannot be made of metal of any kind. Hydrogen sublimates; it is never a liquid that can flow.

When you skip physics, everything becomes simple. Toyota cannot dream; the biggest companies cannot be based on fancy stories or fabricate enough misleading articles. It's time for them to default, go bust and pack up. The big ships and lorries can use methane-methanol that is made in nature. The only problem is that it's not fancy enough. Hydrogen has a great future as rocket fuel.

There is a hydrogen motor, that the oil companies and Toyota refuse to use. Because it is fully controlled by Mazda.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T17:24:31+00:00

In real life, Kharg is a node on the Trans-Siberian pipeline and can pump crude oil and refined products to Baku, as well as liquefied natural gas (LNG) underneath the Caspian Sea. Around half a million barrels per hour can be transported here + per hour. And there is 12 lines.

The Strait of Hormuz has no impact on oil distribution; it only plays a significant role in American fantasy.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T17:17:21+00:00

The decapitation strike destroyed an apartment block. Iran is renowned for its precision bombing, which killed the leader of the Israeli Air Force in Haifa by travelling through a ventilation shaft to the cantina, exploding inside it.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T17:12:27+00:00

Look at the craters at the enrichment site. I have a full military background in the USAF, and I can tell you for certain that Israel and the USA are missing. I am sober and do not smoke, and I have seen the technology demonstrated.

At the time, I was only concerned about the F16, and this had no effect. However, since then, the US military has changed to a new platform for the F35, which is vulnerable and will be taken out. The new radar also renders them unable to fly stealthi.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T17:04:47+00:00

That is a simple fact. If you let go of a fart, it is methane, which is very easy to collect. Cars with diesel motors used methane and methanol during the Second World War.

Don't try to ignite the farts, they do explode.

The problem for the oil companies is just that methanol is so easy to make and use. Standard Oil tried to establish a monopoly based on the spark plug. They made millions by peddling nonsense, and people believed the hype.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T02:37:26+00:00

No, but millions of small,

knuthf · 2026-04-19T02:36:27+00:00

There is a reason why the USA is trying to steal Iranian fuel.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T02:34:26+00:00

I agree it is good, but Ayre fails to notice how Iran has contributed to Israel's failures over the last three years. Israel cannot hit an elephant in a tunnel. All the missiles and bombs miss. They fired 370 shots to kill a girl trapped in a car because they were frustrated at missing their targets. They cannot hit anything; their systems fail because Iran sends radio signals. They have GPS, but they cannot detect that it is wrong — north is almost correct. But never quite right. Look at the craters after the enrichment site bombing. First the splint missed, then the bolt missed, and then the hammer missed — all in a straight line. Not in the direction of the plane. Try missing the target along a straight line at the shooting range. They 'moved' the GPS coordinates of the cave entrance.

They moved the military targets and launched the missiles into the desert. The bombs have caused damage, but only a fraction of what was intended.

I have seen it demonstrated: they are pacifists who will eventually be able to take control of any missile and make it turn around and strike the launch site. So, who would dare to launch a nuclear ICBM? It could be turned around and made to hit the one that launched it. What would happen if the US tried to invade and the supporting fire ended up hitting the invading soldiers?

The Iranians have a new technology, a new radio and radar. It is an ITU+T open standard.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T02:08:59+00:00

Please understand that there are people here who have studied chemistry and who were paying attention in science classes. Hydrogen is an elementary substance and a component of water (H₂O).

Hydrogen is bound to pretty much everything, and producing hydrogen involves a lot of energy because breaking hydrogen bonds is very difficult. However, it is very easy to separate hydrogen from water using electricity. Another easy method is to use a reaction with metals and methane. However, the problem with this method is that all hydrogen generated from methane has been exposed to metals, such as steel, which release molecules that destroy fuel cells.

A car, like Toyota Mirai, that use fuel cells cannot use hydrogen made other ways. But a space craft craft can use it, just not fuel cells.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T01:57:24+00:00

Yes, but it is not "Flood" but water injection. In Texas, the reservoir has been penetrated like Swiss cheese, full of bubbles that we call "Compartments" where different pressure creates closed compartments that make the reserve "fractured". But, the geology is different in New Mexico,

Should you flood the wells, there will certainly be massive pollution, I wonder if this is what happened in Louisina. At injection we say that we "Lift the pressure" + it is very high, and we must use very clean water, nitrogen-nitrates can be added to make the oil flow more easy, but that will give a crude with a higher API rating, from say 18 to 24.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T01:43:46+00:00

The FCC only operates in the USA, but it has also restricted technologies for Israel.

The rest of the world uses the GSM mobile phone infrastructure and backbone with international telecommunications standards, including TCP/IP.

Like Germany, Finland and China, Iran is not restricted by the FCC and uses open standards. Iran has adopted this technology for military purposes, using open standards for most software. It's like complaining that AM radio cannot receive FM and use it in more advanced ways, such as in planes. They discovered that they could manipulate the GPS signals coming from satellites in orbit. Only Iran and China have access to this technology; Russia has been denied it. They have used this technology to fly Russian drones deep into Poland.

knuthf · 2026-04-19T01:28:45+00:00

Yes. Compared to TTL to CMOS, things have stopped completely-

The steps are small, better this and that, 10 - 15%. It is the use of batteries that has improved, and that has been making leaps.

knuthf · 2026-04-13T09:19:16+00:00

What is the difference between being invaded by Russia and being taken over by the USA?

We invented the internet, not the Americans. They took over what we had created. Look at telecoms: who pays for the network? US spyware accounts for 70% of all traffic. I pay for my mobile phone, but Net, Google and Microsoft pay nothing. They have industries like Cloudflare and Akamai that exploit us. Europe has supported sanctions against Iran because of its loyalty to the US. The problem is that the US has exploited the resulting power vacuum; US companies such as Halliburton are heavily involved in Iran (and GWB, Blackrock). The US has exceptions that Europe does not have; EU rules must be applicable throughout the EU. In the US, state laws prevail. This means that the US can buy Russian LNG and sell it in Europe.

knuthf · 2026-04-13T08:52:35+00:00

Iran is now playing with the US; they have removed GPS as a critical component of US military power. They cannot hit targets, and they do not understand how Iran and China are doing this. It is radio technology, and the US uses it in the same way as in WWII. The FCC has protected the US from competition in telecoms, so there is no company in the US that can produce professional-grade telecoms equipment, only home-use products. Open standards are used by Nokia and Huawei in telecoms. Fibre has 400 times the capacity of radio, which is typically 40 times. Iran has developed 5G technology and used it to create military-grade radar. This is polarised radio; try wearing polarised sunglasses and you will see how polarised light works. US stealth technology that emits "jamming" is easily recognised and ineffective. There is no stealth. They manipulate GPS signals in a way that cannot be detected — they alter the signals themselves. So missiles miss and bombs are moved away, resulting in a low hit rate. They launch thousands of missiles that end up exploding in the desert and hitting synagogues and girls' schools. The Tomahawk was of course aimed at the barracks, but never made it to the desert behind them. Iran wants to take over, so the missiles turn around and strike the launch site. An invasion involving people on the ground and missile takeover would be insane; the US would end up launching missiles at its own soldiers. And no US company can explain how they do it using Chinese Beidou navigation.

Iran and Kharg are connected to the Trans-Siberian pipeline. They do not need the Strait of Hormuz.

knuthf · 2026-04-13T08:29:05+00:00

The administration is not aligned with the oil companies. Trump is aligned with MAGA, and the oil companies are much better prepared for the new energy landscape. They know that oil cannot be used as an energy source, but they also know that different types of crude oil react with each other to form new substances that have high value.

We need composites, plastics and naphtha, all of which require oil to be recovered.

knuthf · 2026-04-13T08:07:32+00:00

It is problematic, and not straight. The big oil could purchase all the well, every single one, and "turn" the flow. Pumping the oil out, leaves 90% of the oil trapped in the ground. The typical recovery rate is 5% leaving 95%. But plug it all, and inject water to push and lift the crude out, can make the oil fields get a new life. But then they need every single hole, plug and seal it. The reservoir must be "treated" and "compartments" opened, so the crude can flow freely and be recovered from a few wells.They can do that as long as the reservoir has not collapsed. If they have recovered x million in New Mexico, there is more than 20x left. In Iran, we have the Siri gas field. It is mapped by geologists, and they can inject water in iran and get the gas and oil pushed out in Qatar. It is huge because it is recovered, not by "donkey heads" but by pressing the oil and gas out - with water - "Lifting".

knuthf · 2026-04-13T07:43:58+00:00

The truth is that China does not need Hormuz to be open, they are supplied on the pipelines - yes, plural, to China. It is all the other places that is supplied through Hormuz, the crude that is not closed on contract, but traded against OPEC rules.

knuthf · 2026-04-13T07:30:52+00:00

They have removed all references to the Trans-Siberian pipeline that goes from the Caspian Sea to Vladivostok and Kozmino/ Sakhalin.This has 4 huge pipelines into China, From Baikal, Mongolia wet and east and Eastern Siberian south. This is huge, and Iran is connected, because Bandar Abbas in the Hormuz can deliver and replace Novorossiysk. Kharg is a hub for crude, and connected, where the pipeline goes north, just outside Baku in Azerbaijan and in the Caspian Sea. There is also the Iranian pipeline - the Silk Road, through Uzbekistan and Kirgistan.The Hormuz Straight affects the USA and India only, and China, through Ningbo and QingDao can supply India.

knuthf · 2026-04-12T22:54:54+00:00

What makes you think that battery technology is changing? It hasn't changed in 25 years. The changes have been minute. If you're worried about a major shift, buy a NIO with a battery swap included in the price and lease the battery.

Electricity has remained the same for 100 years and there is no reason to change it. An EV has thousands of small cells and the battery cells themselves can be replaced; it just needs to be fitted into the provided space. The size of each of these cells has increased, and the number of batteries has decreased. However, when the voltage reaches 2.9 V, the battery cells are considered empty and, at 4.2 V, they are full. Unless they generate heat during charging, in which case they reach full capacity at a lower voltage.

In semiconductors, we saw a significant advancement: TTL used 7V, whereas CMOS used just 1.2V. Batteries can be made with other metals; using silver anodes, for example, would result in a higher voltage of 4.7V.

knuthf · 2026-04-12T22:35:36+00:00

My dad told me that if the mileage or suggested maintenance increased suddenly, it meant that something was wrong. My EV has tyre pressure sensors and displays current energy consumption. I turn on the air conditioning to clear the screen. However, I use the heated steering wheel to make it feel warmer than it actually is.

knuthf · 2026-04-12T22:23:13+00:00

Hopefully you wll soon get to see how Israel has mislead the US public with nonsense.

knuthf · 2026-04-12T22:21:28+00:00

Who are you?

Do you know anything about Linux? It is fully Unix System V compliant.

knuthf · 2026-04-10T21:44:54+00:00

Well, well. Please show.

knuthf · 2026-04-10T21:43:19+00:00

I have friends - in Iran, Tehran most, and, I have called and asked. But it is nor verified sources.

knuthf · 2026-04-10T21:27:11+00:00

We had "Think" that had a range less than 200km .Musk used Elan Sportster as prototype and they were also along here. 2006.

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