Comment by rswail
15 hours ago
Green hydrogen makes sense as a way to ship solar power to places that don't have it.
Using it as a car fuel only makes sense as an interim step to full renewable/EVs.
Internal combustion engines, no matter what the fuel, are way more complicated than electric motors. Doesn't matter how you slice and dice the argument.
No . No . No. Please No. Absolutely fucking not.
Shipping hydrogen is literally one of the dumbest things you can ever do.
Its pure and utter nonsense that is only getting pushed for political reasons. It has 0 actual viability.
Even if you were willing to pay 5-10x more for hydrogen, shipping doesn't make sense.
The only way we are ever moving any quantity of hydrogen anywhere is with pipelines. Literally everything about hydrogen makes it a complete nightmare to ship.
And nobody is likely ever going to build these hydrogen pipelines.
Hydrogen is completely idiotic as a 'energy move' medium.
> Using it as a car fuel only makes sense as an interim step to full renewable/EVs.
No it doesn't and it never did. Only such a tiny amount were ever sold, and those were only sold because of massive subsidies and sold below value by car companies who wanted to push the concept (and farm subsidies).
EV by 2008 already outsold hydrogen vehicles and have grown every year, hydrogen vehicles never became more then marketing gimick and were never sold in numbers that even approach relevance.
Also the losses are much higher when converting electricity to hydrogen and then burning that hydrogen.