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Hydrogen storage is such a pain that I don't think we will be keeping hydrogen around except for chemical feedstocks. We will need to convert hydrogen into som
by epistasis 4y ago
Hydrogen storage is such a pain that I don't think we will be keeping hydrogen around except for chemical feedstocks.
We will need to convert hydrogen into something else to make it easier to handle. Perhaps ammonia, which is useful both for fertilizer and perhaps as a liquid fuel.
- ncmncm 4y agoThere will be a hell of a lot of synthetic ammonia. The shipbuilders and ship fuel suppliers are already tooling up for ammonia-powered shipping. It will take a long time to get electrically synthesized ammonia production up. GW-scale plants under construction now won't start delivering until 2026. There will be a lot of hydrogen banked in underground caverns and tapped-out fracking wells. But industrial users who have been buying it, or LNG, will take to electrolysing locally instead. Airports will electrolyse and liquify locally, international hubs first.