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Bulk H2 is not currently shipped. There was considerable fanfare in 2022 when an experimental hydrogen carrier shipped hydrogen from Australia to Japan: https
by rgmerk 4y ago
Bulk H2 is not currently shipped. There was considerable fanfare in 2022 when an experimental hydrogen carrier shipped hydrogen from Australia to Japan:
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-first-hydrogen-tanker-ship-test-cargo-australia-japan-2022-01-20/ https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/worlds-first-hy...
Ammonia is routinely shipped but as I understand it the conversion process has considerable inefficiencies which would push up the cost of using it as an energy carrier to unviable levels.
- b112 4y agoBulk H2 is not currently shipped Sure it is. Just because it ships with other things, eg railcar size but on ship, doesn't invalidate this truth. It is a solved thing, it is not complex, it is merely that we haven't needed whole tanker shipping yet.
- rgmerk 4y agoThat's like pointing to Climeworks and saying that direct air capture is a solved problem. There's no doubt we can do it if money is no object; whether we can do so at scale cheaply enough to be worth doing is another question entirely.
- b112 4y agoWe ship sawdust to China, and it comes back glued into fake wood, as cheap furniture. If we can do that cost effectively, h2 shipping at immense volume is trivial.