• supercriticalcheese@feddit.it
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        1 year ago

        That is irrelevant to the topic.

        The reason why hydrogen is produced by steam reforming is because natural gas is cheap and is needed to produce ammonia. In Norway where there is plenty of cheap electricity from hydroelectric, there is hydrogen production via electrolysis.

        The advantage of hydrogen as fuel is that can be used to decarbonise things like ships, and possibly things like branch rail lines, and planes. Passenger vehicle is probably the least attractive application, but somewhat lower capital investment than a green hydrogen plant on a industrial scale.

        However this can only make sense if electricity is cheap i.e. if they are running with waste electricity from renewables.

    • spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      Okay but you have to use electricity to do that and currently you’re generating carbon by producing the electricity.

      It’s not a solution.