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Honda and Mitsubishi will test a fuel cell-powered data center in Japan (www.techspot.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Leaked hydrogen (H or H2) also binds to oxygen (OH or O) to create water vapor, which is a problem because GHG also binds to oxygen or OH and becomes neutralized. Some studies peg Hydrogen leakage at scale as being 100x worse, in the short term, than CO2 for warming due to this impact.

https://www.energypolicy.columbia.edu/publications/hydrogen-leakage-potential-risk-hydrogen-economy/

[–] Buffalox 3 points 11 months ago

Thank you, very interesting article, I've always claimed Hydrogen isn't a benefit, because it's to wasteful so it may be actually detrimental over just using the original fuels used to make hydrogen directly. But I never even considered the hydrogen itself would be a problem. But reading the article, it's actually quite obvious, that at scale it's absolutely a problem that it "occupies" oxygen that is used to break down greenhouse gasses.