Methanol is a pretty decent storage medium for hydrogen, and can be made more efficiently than LH2. It actually stores more hydrogen than LH2 on a volumetric ba

Methanol is a pretty decent storage medium for hydrogen, and can be made more efficiently than LH2. It actually stores more hydrogen than LH2 on a volumetric basis, and you can crack it at fairly low temperatures, so a hydrogen economy is probably going to happen regardless, it just won't be in the form of transporting gaseous hydrogen. We need methanol to make solvents and polymers, and to power cargo ships. We need ammonia for fertilizer. These two vectors will probably be the way we create and move hydrogen around. Methanol will probably pick up an additional use case as a fuel for trucks and cars, since alcohols are what you typically resort to for ICEs in the absence of fossil fuels, and methanol is both the simplest to make, and a very good fuel in its own right. Hydrogen itself is more likely to be used to store energy in salt caverns, which is a proven technology for decades now. Aside from storage for the above use cases, it's a workable fuel for gas turbines for backup power. This seems like the most likely outcome in my opinion.