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I need to add to that, though. Pirelli, and the FIA/FOM spend a lot of money transporting those tyres to meetings, especially to what are referred to as the fly away races, even though the containers of tyres are sent by ship. Two problems there. Firstly, when those far away races are in different countries, let's say a fortnight apart, they have to ship containers to both countries, or it could be even more than two with the way the season is planned. Secondly, cargo ships are huge sources of lots of carbon, etc., so this is very far from being "green". It's bad enough that F1 needs at least 4 Boeing 747 freighters to get to these fly away races, plus the containers the teams send by sea as well. |
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Why not accept the hydrogen aspirated V12? The development should be great.....
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(A) Light weight, nimble, cheaper, simple, etc. (B) Sacrifice light weight, cost, etc. for more bleeding edge and more road relevance. High volumetric energy density fuels (such as a hydrocarbon biofuel) fits better with the first option. Using something like battery and/or hydrogen solutions fits better with the second option. Chart of energy density... If I understand that chart correctly, the horizontal scale is gravimetric/weight energy density and the vertical scale is volumetric energy density. You can see that battery is poor in both scales. Hydrogen is excellent in gravimetric, but poor in volume (even if liquified). And hydrocarbons like gasoline is a good balance of both (which is why it is so prevalent today as it is a great technical solution... outside of the global warming issues!) I am not saying you can't race a hydrogen powered car, but it is harder. In short, hydrogen powered race cars will have storage challenges within the context of an F1 car that would not exist with hydrocarbon fuels that have decades of cheap, light, small and safe storage solutions. Richard |
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