Quote from: TDoS on Jan 02, 2024, 07:38 PMI mean really, get some water and electricity, catch the hydrogen as it forms, put it in a tank and get DONE with all the silly carbon molecules polluting up the world regardless of whether or not they are crude oil or "liquids". But we don't do that either to any degree.
You need a source of carbon free electricity generation to do commercial hydrolysis. It is being done now at some nuke plants and wind farms to produce hydrogen for fuel cells. There are multiple problems with commercializing the process. First off, conversion of electricty to chemical energy stored in molecular hydrogen is an energy intensive process, so there is significant loss. Second it takes still more energy to liquify the hydrogen for transport. 3rd, there is no infrastructure built to support fuel cells and distribute the liquid hydrogen.
As new alternative solutions to fossil fuels are concerned, the Flow Batteries we discussed last week are superior to hydrogen as energy storage tech, IMHO.
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