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  • runblack@feddit.org
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    18 hours ago

    I always love the stupidity of this idea: You were able to generate pure hydrogen at high costs… Now what should we do with it? Well lets just do what we did since the middle ages and burn it!

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      16 hours ago

      Well, there are useful appliances for hydrogen, where you just burn it. Burning it to heat your own home isnt one if them.

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        12 hours ago

        If you’re launching a rocket, sure. If cost or difficulty matters in any way compared to raw mass, not really.

        It was talked about for cars where density kinda matters, but you could put them in a fuel cell that way instead of just burning it, and I’m not sure if it was ever anywhere close to economical.

        The cost probably will go down, and with any luck the cost of polluting will go up, but electricity is going to be more practical for most things.