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13. My apologies...
Mon Jul 10, 2023, 12:11 PM
Jul 2023

You write: If your using nat gas feed stock to get the hydrogen you might as well burn the nat gas. You get like 3 times the energy and the same co2 output.

My aplogies, I thought it was understood that if we are trying to stop using fossil fuels, we would not be using natural gas to create the hydrogen.

You also write: The only green way to get hydrogen is solar power, and you much better off using the solar to just make electricity for use, as you get twice the amount of energy.

Yes, getting hydrogen from solar, wind, hydro, or nuclear are the only ways to get hydrogen without using fossil fuels, that is the goal. However hydrogen as a portable storage medium serves purposes that the electricity directly produced from those sources can not provide, we will need to have portable stored energy for vehicles of all sizes, off grid applications of all types, and consistant energy output when intermittent sources like solar and wind are powering the grid, to continue to displace fossil fuels

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