This report: The deep-dive into your comments & questions on hydrogen, Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles (FCEVs) and related issues, stemming from the recent Hyundai Nexo long distance driving world record.

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I was of course humbled and gratified by the tsunami of comments and questions flowing from the Nexo distance world record report. Lots of views there - not entirely nutty, either. So thank you for taking part in the chat. I did try to respond to as many comments as possible.

Short version: Hyundai Nexo set a world record for Hydrogen distance driving, almost 900 kilometres from almost civilisation in Melbourne to well outside Broken Hill, birthplace of BHP, deep in the great Australian Outback.

This report, if nothing else, demonstrates the importance of developing scientific literacy: See, ICE, batteries and fuel cells all have their place in the future. That’s a given. It’s not all about efficiency - it’s about the application, and about things like the viability of rolling out billions upon billions of batteries at scale, and the environmental impacts of that.

Like, what really annoys me here, just in closing, are the vested interests. Electric Hey-Zeus and Volkswagen - both very keen to rubbish hydrogen. (But only because of their vested interest in batteries. Not because hydrogen is in any way non-viable, intrinsically.)

Toyota is quite keen to rubbish plug-in hybrids here in Australia, principally because they’re not offering one here. Battery zealots of course eager to rubbish ICE and hydrogen.

And then there are the owners - who are sometimes virtually intolerable. Two out of every three battery EV owners will brook no criticism of BEVs - no matter how valid it might be. They have joined the cult, and as we all know, rule one of any cult is: The cult may not be criticised.

ICE advocates are very keep to can anyone who thinks sustainability is important. Because, apparently (according to them), CO2 is merely "plant food", and thus all those scientists are wrong.

It’s very difficult for average people to form a balanced view in this domain, because of this cacophony of vested-interest malarkey. Which is why scientific literacy is so important for average people.

Scientific literacy is a modern-day suit of armour, or perhaps a universal solvent of sorts, no matter how half-baked the proffered statements from vested-interest barrow-pushers. If you’ve got kids, cattle prod them - if necessary (metaphorically) - into remaining awake in mathematics and science classes.

Knowing science and mathematics, even at a basic level, is a defence mechanism. Quite important for the kiddies … because we wouldn’t want them growing up to be lawyers - or, worse, politicians.