First, produce hydrogen with solar and wind, then store and transport it with rail and ships, and then it can be distributed to smaller vehicles. The biggest issue are oil and gas industry and politicians doing anything they can to stop the hydrogen progress.
In the “smaller vehicles” part, great obstacles need to be overcome.
I would be content with doing only the parts that are reasonably economical and efficient:
produce it, store it as a compressed gas
if CO2 is available, convert it to methane (can be liquefied for distribution) or even bigger molecules
if there is demand, use it to reduce steel
if storage maxed (no CO2, no ore to reduce) burn it back to water in a turbine, selling electrical power when the market needs it
Economically, this would likely make ends meet - and keep hydrogen away from consumers (consumers are careless and their systems often faulty, while hydrogen is demanding and dangerous).
Yeah. Adoption means nothing as one is making hydrogen with the mindset they make petroleum based fuel.
Production needs to come before adoption. And by that, I mean, the end goal production process.
Any adoption before that is just wasting more energy.
But that’s the same for batteries, from what I see.
First, produce hydrogen with solar and wind, then store and transport it with rail and ships, and then it can be distributed to smaller vehicles. The biggest issue are oil and gas industry and politicians doing anything they can to stop the hydrogen progress.
In the “smaller vehicles” part, great obstacles need to be overcome.
I would be content with doing only the parts that are reasonably economical and efficient:
Economically, this would likely make ends meet - and keep hydrogen away from consumers (consumers are careless and their systems often faulty, while hydrogen is demanding and dangerous).
Yes, using hydrogen cells as one part of the storage for over production of electricity from renewables would be the way to go, if you go hydrogen.
Yeah. Adoption means nothing as one is making hydrogen with the mindset they make petroleum based fuel.
Production needs to come before adoption. And by that, I mean, the end goal production process.
Any adoption before that is just wasting more energy.
But that’s the same for batteries, from what I see.