First, produce hydrogen with solar and wind, then store and transport it with rail and ships, and then it can be distributed to smaller vehicles. The biggest issue are oil and gas industry and politicians doing anything they can to stop the hydrogen progress.
In the “smaller vehicles” part, great obstacles need to be overcome.
I would be content with doing only the parts that are reasonably economical and efficient:
produce it, store it as a compressed gas
if CO2 is available, convert it to methane (can be liquefied for distribution) or even bigger molecules
if there is demand, use it to reduce steel
if storage maxed (no CO2, no ore to reduce) burn it back to water in a turbine, selling electrical power when the market needs it
Economically, this would likely make ends meet - and keep hydrogen away from consumers (consumers are careless and their systems often faulty, while hydrogen is demanding and dangerous).
Yeah. Adoption means nothing as one is making hydrogen with the mindset they make petroleum based fuel.
Production needs to come before adoption. And by that, I mean, the end goal production process.
Any adoption before that is just wasting more energy.
But that’s the same for batteries, from what I see.
First, produce hydrogen with solar and wind, then store and transport it with rail and ships, and then it can be distributed to smaller vehicles. The biggest issue are oil and gas industry and politicians doing anything they can to stop the hydrogen progress.
Yes, using hydrogen cells as one part of the storage for over production of electricity from renewables would be the way to go, if you go hydrogen.
In the “smaller vehicles” part, great obstacles need to be overcome.
I would be content with doing only the parts that are reasonably economical and efficient:
Economically, this would likely make ends meet - and keep hydrogen away from consumers (consumers are careless and their systems often faulty, while hydrogen is demanding and dangerous).
I agree, that’s a reasonable plan.
Yeah. Adoption means nothing as one is making hydrogen with the mindset they make petroleum based fuel.
Production needs to come before adoption. And by that, I mean, the end goal production process.
Any adoption before that is just wasting more energy.
But that’s the same for batteries, from what I see.
Hydrogen in gas form regularly escape atmosphere and there’s no long term study about what will happen if we mass produce it
Hydrogen gas cannot be safely stored, the container will get metal fatigue unless reforged regularly
Hydrogen gas is so small that it can pass through almost everything
Edit: add double new line to prevent someone from trying to derail the subject
Did your periods (.) also escape along with the hydrogen?