It may not be energy efficient, but gray hydrogen is cheap in the United States because you can manufacture it from natural gas and we are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. In theory we're talking like a thousand years of the equivalent of sub 2 dollar gas (and that is including compression and all the other extra costs). Unfortunately shitty energy policy undermines that.
I know hydrogen is currently much worse than batteries but if the same resources had been put into hydrogen that may not be the case.
You can just stick some electrodes into water - doesn't even have to be clean water - and make it that way.
One of the less farcical plans for clean power is a shit-ton of nuclear plants (fusion or fission, doesn't affect the plan) running electrolysis all day every day to generate the hydrogen needed to replace fossil fuels.
The problem is that sourcing hydrogen isn't energy efficient.
It may not be energy efficient, but gray hydrogen is cheap in the United States because you can manufacture it from natural gas and we are the Saudi Arabia of natural gas. In theory we're talking like a thousand years of the equivalent of sub 2 dollar gas (and that is including compression and all the other extra costs). Unfortunately shitty energy policy undermines that.
I know hydrogen is currently much worse than batteries but if the same resources had been put into hydrogen that may not be the case.
You can just stick some electrodes into water - doesn't even have to be clean water - and make it that way.
One of the less farcical plans for clean power is a shit-ton of nuclear plants (fusion or fission, doesn't affect the plan) running electrolysis all day every day to generate the hydrogen needed to replace fossil fuels.