Comment by b112
14 hours ago
It is entirely feasible. And it is made up to claim that "Well, this second it looks like there's no infra for green h2, so it can never happen! So there!"
If that was the case, we'd still have electric cars with 50km range, and 1000lbs of batteries.
I haven't seen any cost models where green hydrogen is feasible without a lot of super cheap excess electricity. And those situations also boost batteries. Do you have one you can show me? It's not just lack of infrastructure, even if you solved the problem of building everything out green hydrogen is still not worth it under conditions close to the present day.
And I didn't say it could never under any circumstances be feasible.
> If that was the case, we'd still have electric cars with 50km range, and 1000lbs of batteries.
I don't follow your logic here. Nobody went out and built tons of lithium ion batteries for cars until they were actually feasible. We're living in the world where companies wait, and it worked out for electric cars.
Research. Battery tech was terrible. Horrible. It was only through endless research, trillions spent, that battery tech can do what it does today.
Now apply the same logic to h2.
I didn't suggest stopping research.
But while research and scaling up made batteries 50x cheaper, batteries are mostly about material costs and technique. For hydrogen there's a huge per-unit energy cost and that limits how much research helps.