Re:Toyota’s prototype 'cartridge' is a way to make hydrogen ...
by Robotbeat on Thursday June 02, 2022 @03:36PM
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Clearly, but that’s a short term constraint, not a medium to long term constraint. The short term constraints on hydrogen are way worse, and hydrogen already has massive industrial demand that is being met virtually entirely by fossil hydrogen. If green hydrogen production was a slam dunk and we just needed storage, etc, then we’d already been using massive amounts of green hydrogen industrially instead of, like, 1%. (Note that in the US, 41% of electricity is clean.)
if the increase in demand outpaces the increase in supply, you'll see a price squeeze, regardless of how much salt remains in the oceans
if someone goes and outlaws internal combustion engines, for instance, you may see demand increase quicker than supply can catch up