It fucks everything that relies on the watershed.

It only fucks the watershed.

The commenter attempted to use two em dashes kind of like parentheses for a quick informative aside.

If your comment was an attempt at humor, I recommend entertaining only yourself next time. Reddit has become clogged with unfunny halfwitted quips that add nothing to the user experience other than having to wade through them all for the good stuff.

Some people are used to typing em dashes by using two hyphens since common word processing software will autocorrect two hyphens into an em dash

It is a common typing convention to use two hyphens in place of an em dash if that does not come standard on the keyboard. Word processing software will sometimes correct two hyphens into an em dash. That is how I type them at work.

Also infinite is just silly to say in this situation.

Yes, that looks like the sort of system I described.

I am not interested in a demonstration, that is well within my means and I have had my fair share of fun igniting hydrogen. I mean I do not have the means to obtain a self sufficient energy grid which uses hydrogen for chemical energy storage. I would need solar or other production capabilities and a battery to make it worthwhile, and then all the hydrogen equipment. And by equipment I mean a somewhat efficient electrolyzer and gas handling systems with a compressor and storage tank. without that stuff, I think it’s more of a demonstration that fire can be made from water.

Ahh okay I see. I was imagining societal scale as I have no means to obtain this equipment myself.

This can be expanded to the science of most anything.

Production of hydrogen is pretty well tied to solar production which is getting big (United States perspective). Couple that with the recent proliferation of natural gas turbines that are compatible with hydrogen blends. All that’s really missing is some minor Infrastructure at power plants and major national hub style geologic storage facilities tied into existing fuel pipelines.

I see this coming soon as a stepping stone to less reliance on fossil fuels. I am interested in other peoples thoughts too.

Small modular reactors will mitigate that concern.

I think large scale storage such as geologic storage is key and can be connected to existing infrastructure via existing pipeline infrastructure.

Why would small scale storage be helpful in your opinion?

Hydrogen is not very energy dense and while it can be compressed well, there is some hesitation proliferating small scale compressed gas energy solutions on a national level. Until solid state (adsorbed) storage becomes a more viable option, I think I’ll continue to support large scale hydrogen projects over smaller ones (though I support energy diversification).

It seems the author is blending learning curves and economies of scale.