Comment on Honda and Mitsubishi will test a fuel cell-powered data center in Japan
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 1 year agoAh it’s to make the actual hydrogen fuel not the fuel cells. Ty for the info.
Comment on Honda and Mitsubishi will test a fuel cell-powered data center in Japan
steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 1 year agoAh it’s to make the actual hydrogen fuel not the fuel cells. Ty for the info.
abhibeckert@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Essentially if you combine hydrogen with oxygen, you get water. This chemical reaction happens naturally hen the two are exposed to each other and produces heaps of energy which can easily be controlled and used for anything else.
One way to produce hydrogen is to take water, and heaps of energy, and “split” the water into hydrogen and oxygen. You can just release the oxygen into the air (since you’d be making too much to sell it).
The cost largely comes down to where you get your energy from. As solar gets more and more widely deployed, some countries now have more energy during the day than they can use - the price of power in those countries is not just close to zero sometimes it’s negative. The grid will literally pay you to use the electricity during peak production. Since it’s cheaper to provide power than shut down infrastructure that will be needed again in a few hours.
At that point, all you need to produce hydrogen is water. The power is free. And it doesn’t need to be pristine water either - ocean water is fine.