Paul Martin: "Hydrogen - The Decarbonization Problem"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Biggest Problem With Scaling Hydrogen
There are no regret uses for hydrogen that are plentiful. We should be focusing on those, right? I keep hearing people talking about the so-called hard to decarbonize sectors. And all of those are questionable when you dig into the details. So it's literally that simple. There are use cases that make sense. Those are hydrogen being used as a molecule or as a reducing agent to replace fossil-reducing agents. Then there are use cases where hydrogen is being used as an energy storage medium or an energy transport medium. It's too big, too low in energy density per unit volume and too difficult to distribute and hence expensive to distribute as a fuel. The lion's share of
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