Hydrogen will become a key carrier of
power in the future, I say carrier because it is in effect similar to a
battery, it will take
power to create and is a way to carry and transport that power.
You could run an airplane or ship off of hydrogen, but not with any close to be existing
battery, and when your talking the scale of grid power
storage you see how silly a battery is.
Although I’d hate to see hydrogen used to run an internal combustion
engine to generate
electrical power to charge an
electric car it can do so very well, but it’s very inefficient to do that, likely better to
fuel the car with a
fuel cell.
The
concept of there is only one right way forward is very short sighted and simplistic and complex problems are never
solved with simple answers.
That is why I think hydrogen will play a part, I suspect a large part.