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by _aavaa_ 180 days ago
But the problems with hydrogen are fundamental and inherent to it as a molecule, not something innovation can change.

- Energy required to get it from water is fixed.

- energy required to compress it (and got for it liquify it) is fixed.

- Explosion dangers and basically invisible flames are fixed.

- Difficulty in transporting are fixed.

> It appears that there’s about 100x time more funding.

That may be because battery technology has proven itself and has paths to scale (phone, laptops, battery storage, a million different consumer electronics) for any new advancement. While hydrogen has proven itself a failure time and time again and has no paths to scale.

At this point hydrogen powered anything are solutions in search of a problem.