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Representatives of more than 50 nations gathered in Santa Marta, Colombia, this week at what was billed as the first global summit on phasing out fossil fuels. A panel of scientists will be advising them

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[-] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

you can transport hydrogen.

If you mean transport fuel tank full of hydrogen to power an airplane or truck, it's really awful due to its physical properties. It penetrates materials, hydrogen gas density is horribly low, liquifying requires huge energy effort, and the due to low specific heat it boils away really really fast.

If you want a fuel with bare minimum reasonable properties made out of hydrogen, then you could do synthesis with nitrogen to make ammonia. It's corrosive and toxic, but at least storage requirements are sane. Still it has half of the energy density of gasoline and nitrous oxide emissions are problem when combusting.

[-] TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago

Ofc I don't mean transport by trucks...

Have a look at this planned project here that will be using pipeline-based infrastructure for cross-border transmission: https://en.energinet.dk/about-our-news/news/2026/energinet-and-gasunie-deutschland-strengthen-cooperation-on-cross-border-hydrogen-infrastructure-between-denmark-and-germany/

[-] BlackLaZoR@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

TBH this sounds pretty unnecessary if you have large scale electricity infrastructure already in place. Instead of transporting hydrogen, you can transport electricity for all usecases, not just fuel and fertilizer production.

[-] TwoTiredMice@feddit.dk 1 points 1 day ago
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