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But it cannot be transported or stored in any reasonable way. Hydrogen is a dead-end fake green fuel pushed by petroleum companies because the cheapest and easi
by tim-tday 10mo ago
But it cannot be transported or stored in any reasonable way.
Hydrogen is a dead-end fake green fuel pushed by petroleum companies because the cheapest and easiest way to make it is from petroleum so adopting it would mean there’s always a market for oil.
- Manuel_D 10mo agoThere's plenty of applications where batteries cannot work due to insufficient energy density. Aviation, and transoceanic shipping are good examples. Even if the approach is to create net-neutral hydrocarbon fuels, those processes still need hydrogen as an input so a better method to produce hydrogen is valuable.
- amluto 10mo ago> transoceanic shipping People have run the numbers, and battery-powered transoceanic shipping actually seems okay.
- pstuart 10mo agoThere are legitimate industrial uses for hydrogen, so if it can be generated and applied without the costs of storage and transport it would not be a bad option to have. I do agree that there's significant greenwashing by the petroleum companies to push it as you note, but both of these things can be true. At least they seem to have given up on the lunacy of using hydrogen for fueling vehicles. Green hydrogen sourced methanol on the other hand would be worthy of pursuit.
- westurner 10mo ago- "Sodium borohydride a better Hydrogen storage, transport solution than Ammonia" (2025) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46279149 - Hydrogen fueling stations and processing facilities must be ventilated and brushless.