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by dragontamer 886 days ago
> 3. H2 is light weight but takes up a lot of volume, limiting the usefulness of small-scale applications. Compressing it to liquid takes a lot of energy.

My understanding is that H2 is seeming to standardize upon 300-bar (aka: 4500ish PSI).

There's liquid and a few other more difficult storage (700-bar / 10,000 PSI for example). But 300-bar is where a lot H2 stuff is standardizing today.

Its not quite as dense as in liquid form, but it starts to be usable at 300-bar. Of course, the thicker and heavier steel needed to hold H2 at this pressure makes it unsuitable for say... drones. But its more than usable for H2 Forklifts and other smaller vehicles.