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by christkv 1765 days ago
I never understood why we don’t create hydrogen plants and dump spare electrical generation into splitting water. It might be less efficient than other storage technologies but burning it will produce only water again. Just keep it away from dense population so if it blows it does not take out to much.
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I think we don't have enough excess electricity to do it on a big scale. It is happening on one island though. https://youtu.be/8UmsfXWzvEA
If you have enough electricity to do that, you can just put into EV batteries directly and skip the hydrogen middle man.