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Rod H's avatar

An excellent piece calculating what would really be needed , and the costs, for the thermodynamic crime called hydrogen.

Too many just hand-wave away the costs and problems of using hydrogen for “climate” remediation.

Uncovered in your piece is that it causes steel embrittlement, leaks like crazy (about 1% for each joint on connection) burns dangerously invisible, and cannot be transported in existing natural gas pipelines.

There’s a reason dozens of hydrogen outfits have gone bankrupt or shuttered in the last year.

And about 130 on a bankruptcy death watchlist.

Hydrogen will always be the next great thing. As it has been for a century.

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Ed Reid's avatar

Thank you for the link. I was unaware of this potential source.

This would solve the production issues. However, compression, storage and distribution issues remain. Also, this is a potential future source, which would not solve the currently critical shortage of electricity storage to render renewables dispatchable before conventional dispatchable generation is shuttered.

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fnfcst's avatar

Thanks for your reply and incite!

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