Hydrogen is the future, not BEVs?

my landing bulb is a philips hue thats over 10 years old, it must have 25,000+ hours on it now and still works perfectly

Glad you got a good one:-)

My last attempt at getting LED bulbs resulted in 2 of the 3 failing after less than 3 months. When I went back to the lighting shop to complain they said that LEDs were much more reliable and it was odd to have failures so quickly. They tested the replacement LED bulbs and 2 didn't work straight out of the box. Hardly a 'glowing' experience and from then on I've refused to fit LED bulbs.

I'm very familiar with the composite tanks used to store H2, their working pressures, and the life and dimensional limitations due to the stress profile and low cycle fatigue.
If you haven't read most of this thread then I should elaborate that my question was mostly about source.
Electricity nowadays has a fairly mature (in terms of how it is derived) carbon intensity value attached to it.
UK sourced H2 is almost entirely grey today, and I don't see much on the horizon that sees us switching to green in a meaningful timeframe.
Rather, the approach seems to be to push blue hydrogen to the fore.
Blue H2 has some serious questions to answer before we can call it a proven low carbon option, so much so that the EU and USA appear to be saying no to blue hydrogen from the get go.
Fugitive methane and H2 rates combined with sub-100% capture of CO2 potentially means very unattractive real world carbon intensity.
This is what I mean by an honest discussion.
Understandably, the business relationships between JCB and Ineos, for example, favour the idea of using blue hydrogen over green.
I can rationalise that as a sound approach to decarbonising existing consumers of hydrogen, but what I struggle with is developing new applications to increase the consumption of H2 on the back of an unproven and potentially even higher carbon intensity than simply burning the methane and producing electricity from it.

Back to basics. I found this article informative. Others may do so as well. Alternative articles providing a better explanation are welcomed

Grey, blue, green – why are there so many colours of hydrogen? https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/clean-energ...

What we need is a a credible metric for measuring and reporting the carbon intensity of all these colours and an aggregated value based on mix.
Mind you, that would also need an energy utilisation co-efficient multiplier to allow a proper comparison with the direct electrification alternative (if there is one).
Top tip: don't eat yellow hydrogen.

Same.

I do find Amazon ones (often G9 or filament) were prone to failure so ditched using them. Perhaps this lighting shop is just drop shipping.

Same here. No idea how many led bulbs I have in the house, possibly 50+, and in the last 5 years I have replaced one. It was a cheapy, Wilko candle type bulb, at £2 for three of them. No idea where someone pays £7 for one nowadays, unless it's a fancy smart one.

You can drive a bus through the eco fuel industry's credentials. None of the producers' claims re use of waste products would stand up to audit and there actually isn't the amount of waste produced to meet the combined claims of the industry.

The problem is that if we force the issue then it becomes more ammunition for lobbyists and so, as is the norm today, the coward's approach backed by the zealotry of truly wanting to believe is taken and so we end up with an industry that is rife and diseased because no one dared call the individual frauds out as they appeared.

Sweden has appeared as the core hub of eco fraud propagation in Europe. You'll be hard pressed to find a major running or attempted eco fraud in major European markets such as the U.K. and Germany which doesn't have a Swede in there. Even pretty kosher firms such as Lantmannen aren't exactly shy on deceptions as was seen with the rather pathetic attempt, that soon got called out, of trying to say that Coryton's carbon source was a bakery next door!! And of course, the insane fraud of British Volt, which amazingly was subsequently picked up a firm from the hole in the ground fraud specialists, Australia.

At the heart of many of the frauds is the initial deception of the 'carbon from the sky' farce where the first and major laundering act is conducted and the rest of the laundering frauds are usually built out from there to reach a concept of carbon neutral.

The uncomfortable truth is that very many eco projects are frauds or at best just grant to fee or investor to salary wheezes where third party funds are obtained by pitching the idea of delivering an eco solution but the intent is to extract all of those funds over three years via professional fees and director remuneration. The standard small cap, penny share trick.

It'll be interesting to see if Hamza goes quietly or whether someone decides to press the question as to the catastrophic failure rate of the businesses that Glasgow gave everyone's money to, why almost all are English, why there was no viable screening of applicants etc. Or does the break with the greens present the opportunity to reveal the hundreds of eco frauds funded by the SNP using the money that was needed to deliver food and shelter to the most in need and blame it on the Greens?

They've lost £bns in taxpayer funds on extremely dubious eco schemes, to put it politely, even to the point of it being so rampant that pros from primary investor spanking hubs such as Canada and Aus, the global leaders in selling holes in the ground to thick pensioners were hoping the queue for the free money. Does binning the Greens today allow for the blaming of tomorrow? A bit like when the previous leader resigned on one set of grounds the day after learning there were going to be police raids?

Will be interesting to see if the catastrophic eco frauds north of the border play any role in that unfolding mess. The SNP have pretty much bankrupted the country and certainly need a scapegoat for how all the money ended up in London and other financial hubs of superior intellect and maybe the Greens are an ideal fallguy?

Why would you think that something not being perfect, means it's not the best solution? And as such, 'the answer'?

Surely the problem you're pointing at is one of battery tech anyway, not EV.

Technically, Argentina and Chile don't have rain forests, those are quite a bit further north. And in DRC it's cobalt that is being dug out and thanks to EV demand the plight of the situation has been brought to the collective minds of people who will randomly give a crap for just long enough to feel special and superior to others.

By the way, it's best not to use the term 'evangelist' as it does set the tone that the person using it is a thicko loon like an evangelist but on the opposing team where the sport is who can be the biggest retard.