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Most hydrogen today is produced by steam reforming from natural gas. Which means hydrogen cars are more expensive natural gas cars. There is green hydrogen pro
by ianburrell 3y ago
Most hydrogen today is produced by steam reforming from natural gas. Which means hydrogen cars are more expensive natural gas cars.
There is green hydrogen produced by electrolysis of water. But it more expensive than other sources. It only makes sense when fossil fuel sources aren't allowed.
Hydrogen cars are a bad idea. Now, they aren't green and don't have infrastructure. In clean electricity future, battery cars will be better. Hydrogen will be important in the future for industrial processes that need heat. And maybe for long-distance transportation like planes and ships where electricity won't work. But those only make sense with green hydrogen.
- thatcat 3y agoThere is also microbe produced hydrogen extracted from ch4. This would allow using corn as the input similar to ethanol fuel, which already has a large scale production infrastructure.
- adrianN 3y agoSolar panels provide orders of magnitude more energy per area than corn and don't require fertilizer or pesticides.