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Thinking in Systems - Ep107: Prof. David Cebon

Cleaning Up: Leadership in an Age of Climate Change

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How Many Tube Trailers Does It Take?

We think that it is possible to run a logistics system on electric vehicles only. There's no incentive to buy battery electric vehicles which have much higher cable costs and much higher running costs. If you wanted to do to refuel those trucks with hydrogen you would need three times that amount of electricity. That's if the hydrogen is locally generated. Well, so hydrogen distribution is one of the things we did not talked about. But there's an interesting little statistic. If you take diesel fuel tanker and you want to replace it with a bunch of hydrogen tube trailers operating at 700 bar, compressed hydrogen at 700 bar,. Do you know how many of those tube trailers it takes?

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