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Albert14Pounds t1_isos4dr wrote

Reply to comment by Spiderbanana in Nation’s First Nuclear-Powered Clean Hydrogen Production Announced. The Nine Mile Point Generating Station, the oldest operating U.S. nuclear power plant, will soon house the nation’s first nuclear-powered clean hydrogen production facility by chopchopped

Not sure if this hydrogen being added to natural gas is being used for producing electricity or sent with gas to homes or both, but if sent to homes for heating then it's more efficient for it to be burned in the home than to be used to generate electricity then incur generation and transmission losses.

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rabbitaim t1_itodzbz wrote

Maybe I’m misunderstanding your comment so I’ll try best to explain it. I’m not an expert.

Hydrogen is not being added to natural gas.

Natural gas is broken down using a thermal process and you get hydrogen fuel. The process is called Methane Pyrolysis.

Then you can use the stored energy in hydrogen fuel like a liquid battery. For example Hydrogen fuel cars have a platinum plate that pulls the electrons from the liquid and use that to generate an electric current to power the electric motor.

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Spiderbanana t1_ispe5yx wrote

Hydrogen consumes electricity, it makes no sense to mix it to produce electricity. But using gas (if on the same power grid theee is gas an nuclear, whatever you're using comes back to using the dirtier source to create electricity because you're creating the electricity demand this way for the to dirty source to start open) to generate hydrogen and then mix it with gas for heating makes no sense. You lose a lot of energy content along the way.

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