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[โ€“] TheGrandNagus 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

we just haven't figured out how to store it and transport it without cryogenics and/or insanely high pressures.

And we won't.

To compress a gas to that level, it either has to be under a lot of pressure, or chilled to the point it becomes a liquid. There's no getting around physics.

I mean... unless we invented something truly insane like TARDIS technology, but I imagine if we had the capability of doing that, we'd have moved past hydrogen for energy storage anyway.

All we can do is try to find energy efficient ways of chilling/insulating it, and ways of safely and cheaply pressurising it.