Handling hydrogen requires special tanks, pumps, interfaces, and industrial processes which would all be subject to centralized regulation and control. It doesn't empower the plebs or whatever any more than gasoline or battery powered vehicles.
I'm actually working on a hydrogen storage system for dispensing to h2 powered vehicles. Nobody (that I'm aware of) stores this as a liquid. It's all 6k-10k+ psi gas that gets regulated down to some lower level for the actual dispensation
The energy density of compressed gas hydrogen is just laughably low. The number of trucks it takes to haul around the equivalent of a truck full of diesel fuel as energy stored of pressurized gas hydrogen is pretty staggering.
It has been a while since I did a review of the state of the art, but I seem to remember something like 30 times the number of trucks.
Even if it was only five times the number of trucks, that is still a prohibitive cost for transport logistics.
Handling hydrogen requires special tanks, pumps, interfaces, and industrial processes which would all be subject to centralized regulation and control. It doesn't empower the plebs or whatever any more than gasoline or battery powered vehicles.
So does gasoline.
Gasoline isn't a cryogenic liquid. It doesn't boil off through a double walled vacuum flask.
A tank of Hydrogen will boil off to be vented to the atmosphere in a matter of weeks, depending on the tank size.
I'm actually working on a hydrogen storage system for dispensing to h2 powered vehicles. Nobody (that I'm aware of) stores this as a liquid. It's all 6k-10k+ psi gas that gets regulated down to some lower level for the actual dispensation
The energy density of compressed gas hydrogen is just laughably low. The number of trucks it takes to haul around the equivalent of a truck full of diesel fuel as energy stored of pressurized gas hydrogen is pretty staggering.
It has been a while since I did a review of the state of the art, but I seem to remember something like 30 times the number of trucks.
Even if it was only five times the number of trucks, that is still a prohibitive cost for transport logistics.
Yes, that is why I directly compared it to gasoline in the second sentence of my post.