Describes two major problems with hydrogen. Energy required to liquify it (or compress it a reasonable amount) and equipment required to store it in any usable form. Of course handling liquid or high pressure hydrogen would not be practical for anyone other than trained professionals.
“Describes two major problems with hydrogen. Energy required to liquify it (or compress it a reasonable amount) and equipment required to store it in any usable form. Of course handling liquid or high pressure hydrogen would not be practical for anyone other than trained professionals.”
The best and most dense way to store hydrogen is - drum roll - in a hydrocarbon! Gasoline!
The only other real option is storing it as an attached hydride, but then you have to get it to bind and unbind which requires energy and equipment too.
Not to mention that hydrogen embrittles steel, burns with an invisible flame, etc.
Ain’t no engineers pushing hydrogen, unless they are getting an R&D handout from the government.