Natural gas fuel cells were a pretty popular choice there for a while. Bloom energy has been marketing their shit towards datacenters for as long as I can remember, and as far as I know they use a similar mechanism to hydrogen fuel cells where you’re just stripping electrons off of the methane molecules.
reddig33@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Its still natural gas. Getting it out of the ground is an ecological disaster.
PabloSexcrowbar@piefed.social 12 hours ago
It’s also a byproduct of petroleum refinement and an even worse greenhouse gas than CO2, so breaking it down into CO2 and water is better than just releasing it. Might as well make some lemonade.