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HardCounter t1_ivejmxi wrote

Reply to comment by chin-ki-chaddi in Dutch pilot project for hydrogen heated homes allowed to begin by alex20_202020

Yeah, but it's a terribly inefficient storage medium when compared to batteries. Works fine, i guess, but you're losing a lot of power and it'd be best to use short term while mass battery manufacturing gets into place and can be leveraged.

Even then, the sunk cost in the infrastructure for hydrogen might not be worth it over more expensive batteries, because then you need far more power generators to make up the power difference alone. This doesn't include retrofitting homes for hydrogen usage over electricity, the infrastructure for which is already in place.

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Gasa1_Yuno t1_iveokkn wrote

Family are in this industry.
There is definitely a market for production of hydrogen in cheap areas and transport via tanker to other countries as a method for moving green energy around.

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HardCounter t1_iveozeo wrote

Must be some expensive equipment to either contain the pressure or maintain the liquid state. The same with in-home equipment. Honest question: do you know how much investment was made in just the hydrogen portion of the transport? Not the regular truck parts, but the cost of just the hydrogen containment.

Another commenter was talking about retrofitting the gas lines, which would also be a pain.

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