• TranscendentalEmpire
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    2 months ago

    My dude, the military transports more volatile materials than hydrogen every day. Just because something doesn’t make sense for civilian use doesn’t mean it’s never going to be viable for military use.

    If you’re worried about the dangers of transporting something like hydrogen, you’re going to lose it when you find out what bombs are made out of.

    Electric motors are just more efficient in just about every way at scale, the current diesel motors being used in tanks aren’t really able to be improved upon. They’re at their technological peak, so the only way to move forward with mbt is by figuring out how to make electric motors work.

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      1 month ago

      An unarmed bomb can be dropped from cruising altitude onto a hard surface and not detonate. The US military has had nukes fall out of planes without breaching the radioactive core.

      Also, the energy density of hydrogen is pretty poor, diesel electric hybrid on the other hand is a proven technology.

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        1 month ago

        An unarmed bomb can be dropped from cruising altitude onto a hard surface and not detonate. The US military has had nukes fall out of planes without breaching the radioactive core.

        And yet you don’t think they could produce the same safety features for less volatile materials?

        diesel electric hybrid on the other hand is a proven technology.

        Yeah, you just have to add a diesel engine, electric engine, and a giant battery…The whole point of moving to electric is to increase efficiency and decreasing the weight of primary motive components.

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          1 month ago

          Hydrogen isn’t less volatile though, it’s actually much easier to ignite than any modern explosive.