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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by ianburrell on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @11:25PM (#37156784)
The article talks about converting to hydrogen at the solar panel. They don’t mention the expense of shipping the hydrogen where it is needed. And that much of the need is electricity so have to burn it for even more waste.

Their proposed device would be really good for distribution if it is cheap and simple. Scale up to port, scale down to truck stop.

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Re:How to Produce Green Hydrogen for $1/Kg – Terraform Indus... by robbiep on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @11:40PM (#37156885)
TI's thesis is essentially that we are still going to be a carbonised economy, but the carbon source should be renewable (see [0]). So, essentially allowing us to 'hot-swap' our energy source without having to modify all the existing infrastructure.

Ie: can we make the fastest possible switch to just utilising the atmospheric carbon to power our civilisation, which at least means we aren't going to be burning dead dinosaurs anymore?

The Hydrogen gas is the byproduct of electrolysis/feedstock for the generation of carbon neutral methane (or push up the carbon atoms a bit, if you like).

Conceivably, at a later date, if H2 really does become a viable fuel source/the infrastructure exists, you can then cease compiling to Methane and use the Hydrogen directly.

[0] https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/the-ter...

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