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Re:Solar-driven water splitting at 13.8% solar-to-hydrogen e... by TomK32 on Friday November 19, 2021 @05:11AM (#29275595)
I might be mistaken on storing hydrogen, but all that takes in a high pressure container. I can imagine putting those solar-to-hydrogen plants up at sunny but remote places with plenty of space. Once a month when the containers are full a train comes along, unhooks cars with empty containers and goes off with the full ones. If you were to do that with any sort of battery you'd need two batteries, one be charged, one being used/discharged elsewhere, and your battery (for lack of a better term) efficiency (Total cost of usage?) basically halves.
Re:Solar-driven water splitting at 13.8% solar-to-hydrogen e... by iso1210 on Friday November 19, 2021 @05:38AM (#29275812)
Likewise the other way, say you need power at a building site for a couple of years, you can do that by delivering hydrogen bottles to replenish your generator, rather than having to take charged batteries and swap them out somehow.