I'm not sure how an H2 plant in Saudi Arabia, due to start producing in 2027, relates to my question.
If the actual goal is CO2 reduction, and 99% of H2 production is "full-carbon" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production - then why aren't they just building a conventional DC, but with no-water-use cooling? The electricity could come from solar arrays & wind farms, with batteries or something for storage.
Vs. if it's just a "Hydrogen is Trending" PR exercise - that seems a much better fit for the facts.
> As of 2023, less than 1% of dedicated hydrogen production is low-carbon, i.e. blue hydrogen, green hydrogen, and hydrogen produced from biomass.
There is at least one large green hydrogen producer.
I don't know how that changes the total energy problems of hydrogen production and storage. Is it that new methods of hydrogen production have more efficiency?
Let's hope for more green hydrogen production.
A plentiful catalyst like Aluminum might make more green hydrogen, for which there are numerous applications like deoxidizing aluminum and deoxidizing reduced graphene oxide wafers for semiconductor and superconductor production.
If the actual goal is CO2 reduction, and 99% of H2 production is "full-carbon" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_production - then why aren't they just building a conventional DC, but with no-water-use cooling? The electricity could come from solar arrays & wind farms, with batteries or something for storage.
Vs. if it's just a "Hydrogen is Trending" PR exercise - that seems a much better fit for the facts.