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There’s a number of industrial processes that require higher temperatures than you can easily get from electricity. Replacing that with burning green hydrogen l
by likpok 4y ago
There’s a number of industrial processes that require higher temperatures than you can easily get from electricity. Replacing that with burning green hydrogen lets you decarbonize them.
Even if you can replace a furnace with an electric one, it may be easier and cheaper to replace a process burning gas with one burning hydrogen.
You can also use the hydrogen as a battery to move electricity into the future (with losses).
It is of course possible that there are better options for all of this other places, or that this process will not scale up well. And hydrogen has a lot of complicated logistics — storage and shipping are harder than larger gases. But a source of cheap green flammable gas has a bunch of potential applications.