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[-] grue@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

The best way to store hydrogen is to combine it with carbon.

(As a bonus, if you do that then you suddenly don't need a whole bunch of new infrastructure and vehicles to use it!)

[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 1 points 8 months ago

Interesting, I wasn't aware of this. How scalable is it? How easy is it to continuously cycle? Has anyone actually tried to build an energy storage system with it?

[-] grue@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

It's pointless if the hydrogen is initially coming from cracking hydrocarbons in the first place -- and the dirty secret of the hydrogen industry is that it is -- so it doesn't really get used much. Similarly, if you're still allowed to just make gasoline from oil, it can't compete.

It's not a new or experimental thing, though. The Nazis used it in WWII to make liquid fuel from wood gas to overcome petroleum shortages. It would become viable (in peacetime) only if we quit allowing fossil fuels to undercut it on price.

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