Yes. Do you have any idea how much energy we’re wasting because nuclear power plants produce way more than we need because they can’t scale easily or that most green energy generation is at the time people don’t actually need it? Hydrogen is a prefect storage solution for that power.
And where are you gonna get the hydrogen from? You have any idea how power inefficient electrolysis is!?
daqqad@lemmy.world 9 months ago
jabjoe@feddit.uk 9 months ago
It is somewhere to put energy, when you filled the efficient storage. But that doesn’t make it good for transport.
SupraMario@lemmy.world 9 months ago
www.airproducts.com/…/hydrogen-onsite-generators
Uhh there are tons of companies making these now. You can literally drop one of these in the middle of nowhere running off solar, pulling hydrogen from the atmosphere.
ExLisper@linux.community 9 months ago
Because solar is free?
Guys, we can stop trying to solve climate change, we already have free energy!
SupraMario@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Are…you suggesting solar isn’t free energy?
Patch@feddit.uk 9 months ago
Solar costs whatever it costs to buy, install and maintain a solar PV farm, which is not nothing.
If you’re going to build a solar PV farm, you’re obviously going to want to sell the power you generate in whatever way is most profitable.
At the moment, it’s still magnitudes more profitable to sell solar back to the grid than it is to feed it into an inefficient hydrolysis plant, create a load of hydrogen and oxygen, and then move it by tanker somewhere to sell it.
ExLisper@linux.community 9 months ago
Jesus, of course it’s not free. Solar panels are not free, the land you put ten on is not free, construction is not free and the infrastructure needed to supply energy during the nigh (storage or another source of energy) is not free. How is this not obvious?