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this is the stupid binary-ism that is holding us back. "its no good for X, so its immediately discounted for ANY solution".

The issue plagues moving forward with other energy solutions like hydrogen.






What's hydrogen a solution for?

Power supply to remote temporary areas like construction sites. Let’s say you need 100kW for 12 hours a day for a month to the middle of nowhere. You could run new power lines and get the connected, over land you don’t own, taking months. Or you could bring in a hydrogen generator and ship in new bottles to “recharge” it.

More affordable blimps?

green energy storage and transport, ammonia (fertilizer and fuel), used in the manufacture of green steel etc etc

Oh, I would have considered using hydrogen for manufacture as obviously a separate topic. Do people really reject that idea because of hydrogen's issues as energy storage?

For storage and transport, I feel like the situations where is close to the best option are extremely limited, but I guess we'll see.




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