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Originally Posted by Brutha  At the moment we neither know which way is the best way to store energy nor which is the best way to produce our energy in the future.
There is a good argument to be made that you should use a large energy mix to create the energy, because you become less dependent on events that reduce the efficency of one energy source.
But at the moment we should as society also experiment with a large number of different ways to store energy.
Hydrogen is one of them. But you don't get it somehow for free while you drive.
You have to use energy derived from other sources to get your hydrogen. |
You are used to pay for everything. And you probably are used to pollution.
Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the universe.
Water covers majority of surface of Earth.
Unlike fossil fuel the byproduct is not polluting.
If you split H2O into H2 and O2, you find that O2 is something you can breath. Then, you have H2.
If H2 is combined with O2 again it makes a very powerful bipropellant that is used by space shuttle SSME (Space Shuttle Main Engine) in the form of LOX (Liquid Oxygen) and LH2 (Liquid hydrogen). It provides a very high specific impulse, higher than JP4 jet fuel.
The problem of H2 is that the reaction is very powerful and therefore it is very flammable. But there are ways to make it safer. One of those is not to produce H2 until you need it.
H2 can be used as fuel, or it also can be used to absorb CO2 in a space station using Sabatier reaction.
I believe H2 is the way to go. Nuclear power requires water to cool down the reactor. So during summer or hot season you should have to turn it off like it happened in France before.