[amsha]

There is a very to-the-point diagram called the Hydrogen Ladder [0] that classifies the usefulness of hydrogen by domain. The author makes a good case that, despite its versatility, hydrogen is almost always worse than some other clean technology for any use case. It’s hard to make, store, and use in a scalable/cheap way, and even generous estimates of future progress show a cost curve that requires subsidies basically forever.

Buses are classified as a “Most Uncompetitive” category. Electricity, whether wired or battery powered, is cheaper and easier to scale for the predicable everyday energy use of a city bus.

0: https://www.liebreich.com/hydrogen-ladder-version-5-0/

[BlueTemplar]

With some emphasis on the "almost" :

https://cleantechnica.com/2025/04/07/green-hydrogen-for-ener...

[NooneAtAll3]

did the picture die or smth?

edit: no, even internet archive from a year ago shows no picture

[mrspuratic]

"V5" article doesn't render (multiple browsers), try the older v4.1 version linked from it at the bottom (the faux "energy efficiency" graph).