[Tell It Right]

From the article: "The process of manufacturing green hydrogen — known as electrolysis — converts water into hydrogen using renewable power, and the hydrogen it generates is nearly 14 times as expensive as natural gas to generate the same amount of power."

True that. And hydrogen as energy storage from electrolysis is horribly inefficient, at least a 50% loss of power (for every 100kWh used to generate hydrogen, at most 50kWh can be obtained from the fuel cell that later consumes hydrogen when you need power).

Thus, there is only use case I can see even a chance of electrolysis being worth it. That is for long term backup storage in a very remote area (read: no grid power or natural gas service) that gets plenty of sun most of the year (to run the electrolyzer) so the gas can be generated and stored for winter use or rainy times that last weeks. The idea being that battery storage, though more efficient, is more expensive when talking about large storage amounts. With hydrogen storage, you can expand storage fairly cheaply by adding tanks.

[Red Badger]

Hydrogen embrittlement of metals is still a major problem...............