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[–] Hule 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hydrogen needs too high of a pressure (thousands of psi), and is much more volatile than natural gas.

I'm not saying never, but it's tough.

[–] snekerpimp 1 points 1 year ago

I fully understand the drawbacks of hydrogen, and why we physically can not use it right now. But if we had that as the long term goal and treat chemical batteries as a micro-short term stopgap, I can’t help to think we would be a lot closer than we are now.