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The efficiency is pretty awful, though. It's quite hard to make the economics of it work (even if the electricity is free) with current fuel prices, which is wh
by rcxdude 3y ago
The efficiency is pretty awful, though. It's quite hard to make the economics of it work (even if the electricity is free) with current fuel prices, which is why it's not really happening. Either the tech needs to get a lot better or the fuel needs to get a lot more expensive (which I don't imagine would be a popular option).
- pfdietz 3y agoIt's much easier to make the economics work than it would be to make the economics of batteries work for seasonal storage or rare event backup. If you look at cost optimized solutions to providing steady electrical output from solar + wind in high latitudes, hydrogen is strongly featured. It becomes much more expensive to use just short term storage like batteries. Hydrogen is often useless, but it's sometimes essential. Hydrogen critics bleat about efficiency without understanding the limits of that argument.