But the report specifically does not give any real data about the economic feasability of using catalyzed organosilanes as a hydrogen source. What is the source of the organosilane liquid? How cheap is it to produce?
The by-product of extracting the hydrogen is silanol, which is currently more valuable than the source organosilanes. However, if this process is implemented on the mass scale required to produce enough hydrogen to be a replacement for our current energy sources, I strongly suspect so much silanol byproduct would be produced that it will become just another waste product and will need to be disposed of in some way.