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I find it amazing (in a bad way) that whenever you talk about hydrogen someone comes up and wants to talk about cars. There's a number of use cases where clean
by hannob 6y ago
I find it amazing (in a bad way) that whenever you talk about hydrogen someone comes up and wants to talk about cars.
There's a number of use cases where clean hydrogen will be desperately needed. This starts with areas where hydrogen is already used today - but it's hydrogen made from fossil fuels - like ammonia production and includes areas like steel production where hydrogen really is the only game in town for a low-carbon production.
We'll need all the clean hydrogen we can get, and probably more than that. There's no plausible scenario where we'll have excess hydrogen that we can waste in an area where it's just vastly less efficient than the available alternative.
- marcosdumay 6y agoOn the specific case of steel production, it's way more likely that people will settle on synthetic carbon based fuels. Of course, producing those uses hydrogen too, so no big change.
- paledot 6y agoYeah, I really don't see a case where large amounts of hydrogen are being transported commercially. Anything you don't need on site makes much more sense to convert to synfuel.
- hannob 6y agoWhy would that make any sense? (Synfuels are really, really inefficient, you basically only want them in places where you need the high energy density and can't avoid them, like aviation.)
- marcosdumay 6y agoBecause the carbon has an important role on the chemistry of making steel.
- Triv888 6y ago> I find it amazing (in a bad way) that whenever you talk about hydrogen someone comes up and wants to talk about cars. It would solve the battery charging problem that electric cars have (for long trips) while not polluting like conventional cars.
- BartBoch 6y agoAny solution that is applied to massively produced product (a car) will get massive funding, research grants and it will only improve over time. This way it can be distributed to other areas quicker and at lower cost. So yes, implementing hydrogen in cars is a massive success to other industries.