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Paul Martin: "Hydrogen - The Decarbonization Problem"

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

CHAPTER

The Energy Density of Hydrogen

Hydrogen as a liquid is about a quarter the energy density of methane as a liquid. It takes three times as much energy to compress hydrogen like a unit of energy in the form of hydrogen than it does to compress Methane. If we were to try to make liquid hydrogen at 24 degrees above absolute zero using 30% of the energy in the hydrogen and then transport that, we would need four times as many ships for the same amount of energy.

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