Bigger tanks equals more cost which is exactly what I said. AGAIN, I said nothing about “exotic” or “insurmountable difficulties” , those are your words.
“People store and use gasoline and propane “at home” all the time. Hydrogen will be no different when its turn rolls around.”
Propane, gasoline and NG offer such great advantages over hydrogen that hydrogen’s “turn” has been rolling around for at least the past fifty years and never arriving. I’m sure it will continue to do so for another fifty years.
With nat gas being extracted in ever-increasing amounts, and the price looking low and stable for a long time to come, I totally agree with your view.
They just finished the Rockies Express gas pipeline thru Indiana in 2009 and now they’re talking about reversing the flow to go east to west.
Given shale gas and oil coming on like gangbusters, that's probably true, but in the long run, hydrogen is as inevitable as taxes, barring some huge advance in technology. But "my" point is about the technology to safely use it. Which exists, in full, today. There may be improvements, as there always are, but if, magically, the cost to produce hydrogen dropped so that it "was" economically a better deal than fossil fuels, the technology exists now to handle it.