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by ADuckOnQuack 1803 days ago
This doesn’t make sense, hydrogen fuel cells are essentially batteries/an energy store, and it takes a large amount of electricity to produce the hydrogen. Hydrogen fuel cells are closer in relation to lithium ion batteries or gasoline, you still need a massive energy producer to extract the hydrogen (like wind, solar, hydro, fossil fuel, or nuclear). So hydrogen is not an alternative to nuclear, if it ever took off it will really increase demand for large energy producers like nuclear.
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Hydrogen is more convenient to those who travel long distances often and / or do not have an opportunity to charge at home. As someone living half way through Germany, there is no way for me to drive up to Hamburg, neither to Munich in an EV without planning to stop at a charger at least once in both directions. Maybe that’s reasonable in the summer but in the winter, that’s an uninteresting offering. It makes a one day round trip pretty difficult. FCV would make that possible.