For small distance trucking, for fleets of trucks, batteries are probably a better bet. Something like liquid hydrogen or a clean fuel like methanol or ammonia made from clean hydrogen may be a better fit. One salt cavern, if it were filled with hydrogen, would equal 150 times all the batteries in the US. It's a lot of storage. And so that is very hard to beat. There's a big value proposition to utilities, to the government, to customers, to use hydrogen for long-term intermentancies.
Not long ago, it was said that “hydrogen is the fuel of the future - and always will be.” Now, with the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law tagging $9.5 billion for developing a domestic hydrogen economy, this simplest of all elements is increasingly being discussed as a viable pathway for long-distance trucking, shipping, and hard-to-decarbonize industries like cement and steel. But how clean is clean hydrogen, really? And what will it take to make green hydrogen a cost-competitive option in applications like manufacturing, transportation, and grid-scale energy storage?
Guests:
Julio Friedmann, Chief Scientist, Carbon Direct
Sunita Satyapal, Director, Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office, DOE
Alan Krupnick, Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
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