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What the hell are you talking about, a. batteries weren't mentioned and b. hydrogen is on the periodic table and exists as an element, and can actually be found
by Guthur 2y ago
What the hell are you talking about, a. batteries weren't mentioned and b. hydrogen is on the periodic table and exists as an element, and can actually be found in its pure form.
- zejn 2y agoWhile hydrogen can be found in its pure form, the reserves are not really developed. Hydrogen is generally considered a storage, not a resource. Same as battery.
- Retric 2y agoPure hydrogen is not found in meaningful quantities on earth. There’s a huge demand for hydrogen in industry and it’s almost exclusively met with steam methane reforming there’s some methane pyrolysis and a little green hydrogen but not much. If people could just drill for it, they would happier do so as being so light it’s easy to separate out from other gasses.
- pfdietz 2y ago> Pure hydrogen is not found in meaningful quantities on earth. This is not necessarily true. A recent discovery in France could contain as much as 250 million metric tons of hydrogen (but that's a generous upper bound).
- Retric 2y agoSure there’s useful amounts of grey hydrogen but not enough for any kind of energy transition. We’re talking about the useful energy from ~1 number power plant over its lifespan. So find ~1,000 such locations and that would be a big deal.
- pfdietz 2y agoThis is white hydrogen, not grey hydrogen. It's not clear what would be available globally if it were looked for as it was in France.
- Retric 2y agoAhh ops flipped though there’s a really long list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production
- Dylan16807 2y ago> a. batteries weren't mentioned What do you think people mean when they say "electric" in this context? It's batteries.