🗓️ The cost for #electrolysers and #fuelcells needs to be reduced and field experience in the application of these various #hydrogen technologies needs to be gained. Fraunhofer UMSICHT deals with various issues in a wide variety of projects in order to meet these challenges – from reducing stack costs to industrializing the production of electrolysers. UMSICHT scientist Anna Greve will provide insights at the “hy-fcell Canada” conference on June 18 in Vancouver.
Honest question: I measure gases as a career, and I’m always fixing leaks in my instruments*. How do people who push #hydrogen as a home heating solution propose to avoid catastrophic leaks?
*I use Swagelok fittings, the same ones used on airplanes and in industrial settings.
@fmarini@uoou@davidho considering that the main way we detect gas leaks in residential settings today is by smelling it and calling the gas line, using a gas that leaks more easily and is odourless seems suboptimal 🤔
Thanks to #DW for producing this comprehensive debunking of the "#hydrogen future".
It's ridiculous how many companies are peddling this stupidity (e.g. for home boilers because "we already have gas pipes") and #EU governments are buying into it.
@Odaeus This is pretty generic anti-hydrogen and pro-battery propaganda. It's basically just market from people who have specific goals and use environmentalism as a way to make money. In reality, fuel cells are electrochemical systems just like batteries. They are fundamentally necessary to solving climate change. Naysayers are practically climate change deniers by refuse to acknowledge this.
@CarbonBubble The alternative has already died off as a serious solution. The author is writing from this strange place where it is still 2019 and ideas like e-trucks are still on the table. In reality, those ideas have been quietly abandoned or scaled back.
A liquid-hydrogen fuelling system for trucks that includes a “breakthrough” 100kg fuel tank has been unveiled by Chinese state-owned company China Aerospace and Technology Corporation (CASC).
German automaker Daimler has previously road-tested a fully-loaded truck with 80kg of liquid hydrogen stored in onboard tanks, which travelled 1,047km without refuelling.
@hopfgeist Then you are saying the same thing people said about wind, solar, batteries, etc. That they will "never be cost effective or practical."
In the long run, the price of fossil fuels will go to infinity. Meanwhile, renewable energy will never use up any resource. And if you think generally, about how you are just using wind, sunlight and water to make fuel, then it is simple enough to project that green hydrogen will cost next to nothing in the long run.
On the potential for green H2 cost reductions through experience:
"electrolyzers account for only around one third of the cost of green hydrogen. The rest is driven either by the cost of green electricity – already far down its own experience curve – or by the cost of heavy engineering components – stuff like compressors, tanks, valves, pipes, power supplies and site infrastructure, which are not about to fall off a cliff."
@brianstorms BEVs are a greenwashing scam. You have fallen prey to their propaganda. In reality, all self-powered transportation will run on hydrogen in the future. EVs, not BEVs, are the future.
The world's first hydrogen gas fuel-cell superyacht, long rumored to have been commissioned by billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates, is now officially for sale.
@Hypx I never understood how the BEV fanatics hate on Toyota for making a #hydrogen vehicle and completely ignore that Hyundai does. Hyundai makes great BEV’s but their flagship technology is hydrogen fuel cells.
Lowest subsidy of 0,37 €/kg was claimed by #RenGas project in Lahti, #Finland, producing 12kt H2 p.a. and combining with CO2 from nearby bioenergy plant to produce methane for traffic.
The waste heat from the H2/CH4 process is sold as #districtHeat which yields more proceeds (10M€ p.a.) than the subsidy (4M€ p.a.). The 60-90MW electrolyser can also bid in reserve market.
FirstElement Fuels has opened the world’s first large-scale hydrogen fueling station for heavy-duty commercial trucks just outside the Port of Oakland.
