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Maybe, but only for a very limited market segment. Hydrogen creates technical issues at every turn but it all boils down to 3 simple facts. 1) Hydrogen is
by jqpabc123 2y ago
Maybe, but only for a very limited market segment.
Hydrogen creates technical issues at every turn but it all boils down to 3 simple facts.
1) Hydrogen is the smallest possible atom which makes it difficult to contain, particularly under pressure. It can penetrate metals and even common types of glass. Just pumping hydrogen through a long pipeline is a difficult problem that has yet to be fully solved in practice.
2) Hydrogen has to be manufactured which consumes significantly *more* energy than can be recovered during combustion.
In other words, it's not really a "fuel" but rather an energy storage mechanism. Under ideal conditions, hydrogen combustion results in a loss of at least 20% of the energy used for manufacturing. In practice, the actual net loss is typically much higher.
3) Hydrogen is unstable --- highly corrosive and explosive. It degrades metal and rubber seals.