I think hydrogen will definitely be a “feedstock of the future”. It’ll be critical for green production of many materials and fuels. But there’s no reason to u

I think hydrogen will definitely be a “feedstock of the future”. It’ll be critical for green production of many materials and fuels. But there’s no reason to use hydrogen if you can produce and use other green fuels with good efficiency. Hydrogen is hard to handle, leaks easily and has bad volumetric energy density. But it’ll take time to develop methods of production and fuel cells for fuels like methanol, that are efficient enough that it’s worth the extra cost over just using hydrogen. So in the near time there’ll probably be some niches for hydrogen. But in the long term, considering that hydrogen is completely unviable for large scale long distance shipping (the shipping industry is looking at ammonia for that) and long haul flights, and that hydrogen is unviable for ground transportation in the long term (batteries will clearly win there), I think economies of scale will push out hydrogen fuel in favour of whatever the shipping and airplane industry ends up using.