3 ms·

At that point, just use battery storage and bypass the reactor entirely.

• Qwertious 6y ago
  For domestic day-to-day consumption, absolutely. The main argument for hydrogen AFAICT is that it can be exported overseas or stored for inter-seasonal use. Batteries can't do that, as 1) when compared to literal rocket fuel, they're impractically heavy to put on a cargo ship for bulk transport, and 2) batteries trickle-discharge so after a month or two the battery will be flat.
  • ben_w 6y ago
    In fairness, pure hydrogen is also leaky and hard to work with. That’s why I was asking about the economics of turning it into methane… and yet, one of the other replies I got pointed out that methane is also a bit leaky, so we might want to reform it (or whatever the word for “opposite of cracking” is) all the way up to a room temperature liquid. I barely remember the process from school, something like this rings a bell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_reforming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalytic_reforming