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Hydrogen to avoid curtailment is key. Hydrogen is super inefficient. But if you would be dumping the energy otherwise that doesn't matter.
by Certhas 6y ago
Hydrogen to avoid curtailment is key. Hydrogen is super inefficient. But if you would be dumping the energy otherwise that doesn't matter.
- darksaints 6y agoEfficiency isn't, and never has been, a deal breaker. There are hundreds of millions of vehicles that have been built with efficiency levels far lower than the best in class for ICE, and they're still used. Efficiency is just one factor of many that contribute to cost of ownership and operation. Even then, fuel cells are not super inefficient. At the low end of efficiency, PEM fuel cells are already more efficient than the vast majority of current generation ICE vehicles. And with SOFCs with novel heat recuperation technologies, 85-90% efficiencies are already achievable.