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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by mlindner on Thursday March 11, 2021 @07:59AM (#26423477)
Hydrogen isn't an energy source it's an energy storage mechanism. You create hydrogen from other sources. Most commercially available hydrogen comes from natural gas already. So you're wasting a ton of energy by converting the natural gas to hydrogen and then burning it again. Hydrogen is just another form of battery.
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Re:Nuclear power looks to regain its footing 10 years after ... by pfdietz on Sunday March 14, 2021 @03:56PM (#26458405)
If you convert natural gas to hydrogen, you can sequester the CO2 produced. The hydrogen production facility can operate 24/7, with the hydrogen stored and only being used when necessary. In this way, natural gas could continue to back up renewables (or back up renewables + short term storage) without CO2 emission, at a capital cost per kW far below nuclear plants.

(The same argument applies to "green hydrogen"; which would be chosen would depend on economics.)

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